navvy als zelfstandig naamwoord: - 1
navvy
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 navvy
A laborer who is obliged to do menial work.
synoniemen: drudge, galley slave, peon.
Roget 673:
preparation;
providing
etc.
v.;
provision,
providence;
anticipation
etc.
(foresight)
510;
precaution,
preconcertation†,
predisposition;
forecast
etc.
(plan)
626;
rehearsal,
note of preparation.
[Putting in order]
arrangement
etc.
60;
clearance;
adjustment
etc.
23;
tuning;
equipment,
outfit,
accouterment,
armament,
array.
ripening
etc.
v.;
maturation,
evolution;
elaboration,
concoction,
digestion;
gestation,
batching,
incubation,
sitting.
groundwork,
first stone,
cradle,
stepping-stone;
foundation,
scaffold
etc.
(support)
215;
scaffolding,
echafaudage [Fr.].
[Preparation of men]
training
etc.
(education)
537;
inurement
etc.
(habit)
613;
novitiate;
cooking
[Preparation of food],
cookery;
brewing,
culinary art;
tilling,
plowing,
[Preparation of the soil],
sowing;
semination†,
cultivation.
[State of being prepared]
preparedness,
readiness,
ripeness,
mellowness;
maturity;
un impromptu fait a loisir [Fr.].
[Preparer]
preparer,
trainer;
pioneer,
trailblazer;
avant-courrier [Fr.],
avant-coureur [Fr.];
voortrekker [Afrik.];
sappers and miners,
pavior†,
navvy†;
packer,
stevedore;
warming pan.
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Roget 690:
doer,
actor,
agent,
performer,
perpetrator,
operator;
executor,
executrix;
practitioner,
worker,
stager.
bee,
ant,
working bee,
termite,
white ant;
laboring oar,
servant of all work,
factotum.
workman,
artisan;
craftsman,
handicraftsman;
mechanic,
operative;
working man;
laboring man;
demiurgus,
hewers of wood and drawers of water,
laborer,
navvy†;
hand,
man,
day laborer,
journeyman,
charwoman,
hack;
mere tool
etc.
633;
beast of burden,
drudge,
fag;
lumper†,
roustabout.
maker,
artificer,
artist,
wright,
manufacturer,
architect,
builder,
mason,
bricklayer,
smith,
forger,
Vulcan;
carpenter;
ganger,
platelayer;
blacksmith,
locksmith,
sailmaker,
wheelwright.
machinist,
mechanician,
engineer.
sempstress†,
semstress†,
seamstress;
needlewoman†,
workwoman;
tailor,
cordwainer†.
minister
etc.
(instrument)
631;
servant
etc.
746;
representative
etc.
(commissioner)
758,
(deputy)
759.
coworker,
party to,
participator in,
particeps criminis [Lat.],
dramatis personae [Lat.];
personnel.
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Nederlands: grondwerker, koelie, loonslaaf
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