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potboy

/ ˈpɒtˌbɔɪ; ˈpɒtmən /

noun

  1. (esp formerly) a youth or man employed at a public house to serve beer, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Tyrion began his explorations with the kitchen, where two fat women and a potboy watched him warily as he helped himself to cheese, bread, and figs.

She plunged through the kitchens and buttery, blind with panic, weaving between cooks and potboys.

To follow was to be led from the scent; Coke wheeled again, therefore, and meeting a potboy who knew the street, he was directed to Grocott's.

The cheerfulest personage in the room was the potboy, who, as he stalked about with his apron on and p. 114his shirt-sleeves tucked up, seemed to be quite at home with his customers. 

To gratify her sweet grace, I’ll turn potboy, and wait upon the gossips of the tap.

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