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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NAVVY , a labourer employed in the digging and excavating of

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earth, &c., in the construction of

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RAILWAYS

railways, docks, canals or other

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ENGINEERING

engineering operations . The word is a shortened

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FORM (Lat. forma)

form of " navigator," applied during the 18th and

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PART

part of the 19th centuries to a labourer at

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WORK

work on canals, to which the name "

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

navigation " is often applied .

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