Crossword-Solution: NAVVY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Navvy | n. | Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “NAVVY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A labourer employed in building a road, canal, or railway | 1 answer |
| British dockworker. | 1 answer |
| British unskilled laborer | 1 answer |
| U.K. laborer | 1 answer |
| Unskilled labourer | 1 answer |
| labourer employed on a road or a building site | 1 answer |
| ROAD laborer/labourer | 2 answers |
| BRITISH laborer/labourer | 2 answers |
| Manual worker | 3 answers |
| ROAD excavator | 3 answers |
| excavator | 11 answers |
| Laborer | 11 answers |
| Navigator | 27 answers |
| labourer | 32 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NAVVY (5)
Billy the Lasher was out for gore -- Twelve-stone navvy with chest of hair, When he opened out with a hungry roar On a ten-stone man it was hardly fair; But his wife was wise if his face she knew By the time you were done with him, Jim Carew.
Then his round eyes rolled to the large white lettering on the window above his head, and then strayed to the next table, at which sat only a navvy with beer and cheese, and a young girl with red hair and a glass of milk.
This room contained a press, an old chest of drawers, a wooden box once used for navvy's tools, three chairs, a stool, and some cooking utensils.
BOB POLTER was a navvy, and His hands were coarse, and dirty too, His homely face was rough and tanned, His time of life was thirty-two.
Sometimes, the ‘navvy,’ on tramp, with an extra pair of half-boots over his shoulder, a bag, a bottle, and a can, will take a similar part in a job of excavation, and will look at it without engaging in it, until all his money is gone.
Quotes with NAVVY (2)
For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored, Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our rightful lord; The lord of all, the money-god, Who rules us blood and hand and brain, Who gives the roof that stops the wind, And, giving, takes away again; Who spies with jealous, watchful care, Our thoughts, our dreams, our secret ways, Who picks our words and cuts our clothes, And maps the pattern of our days; Who chills our anger, curbs our hope, And b…
Sharply the menacing wind sweeps over The bending poplars, newly bare, And the dark ribbons of the chimneys Veer downward; flicked by whips of air. Torn posters flutter; coldly sound The boom of trams and the rattle of hooves, And the clerks who hurry to the station Look, shuddering, over the eastern rooves, Thinking, each one, "Here comes the winter!" Please God I keep my job this year!" And bleakly, as the cold strikes through Their entrails like an icy spear, They think of…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1952–1989).