NAVVY  , a labourer employed in the digging and excavating of See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth, &c., in the construction of See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways, docks, canals or other See also:

• ENGINEERING

engineering operations . The word is a shortened See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of " navigator," applied during the 18th and See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• PART

part of the 19th centuries to a labourer at See also:

• WORK

work on canals, to which the name " See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation " is often applied .