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<p>Navvy, a <a href="/facts/Clipping_(morphology)/ckVHjD3q">clipping</a> of navigator (<a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">UK</a>) or navigational engineer (<a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">US</a>), is particularly applied to describe the manual <a href="/facts/Laborer/MwFhKj2S">labourers</a> working on major <a href="/facts/Civil_engineering/avh5kEq2">civil engineering</a> projects and occasionally in North America to refer to mechanical shovels and earth moving machinery. The term was coined in the late 18th century in <a href="/facts/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain/5yBEtQIt">Great Britain</a> when numerous <a href="/facts/Canal/pBE8LsJx">canals</a> were being built, which were also sometimes known as "navigations". </p>