navvy

Converse of object

• engage: It is at this stage that some suggest that all the navvies engaged in a pitched battle in the otherwise quiet town of Havant.
• employ: Additionally the prostitutes from those streets were kept busy by the clientele from the many navvies employed upon the tramway.

Adjective modifier

• Irish: Also picturesque Settle to Carlisle railroad, a great feat of engineering, built by the Irish navvies in the 19thC.
• Many: Many navvies ' favorite job is getting very muddy and dirty clearing out the bottom of a lock chamber!
• old: Old navvies were rare: 40 was a good age.

Modifies a noun

• village: Sadly, the official school log books of the temporary wooden school in the navvies village have not survived in a readable form.
• road: We are not alone but most people seem to be down on the navvies road.

Noun used with modifier

• steam: The most numerous of these was the Ruston & Dunbar steam navvy, produced by Ruston & Proctor of Lincoln.
• railroad: August 1847 After heavily drinking, two railroad navvies decide to have a " punch up " in a field near Bath.