Book-boy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Book-boy is a noun meaning (dated) A young male assigned to retrieve books, especially for patrons in a library.
Meaning
(dated) A young male assigned to retrieve books, especially for patrons in a library.
Example Sentences
A Battledore boy or Horn-book-boy.
His first situation was as book-boy in the library of the Bristol Law Society.
While a student at Fordham Law School I was indentured to the Association as a book-boy at Vesey Street charged with the responsibility of shelving the books in the south reading room.
Word Forms
- book-boys
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