Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In English printing-offices, a boy who serves as helper to a machine-man. In the United States known as feeder or press-boy.
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Examples
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And Michael Fenger too who, not so many years before, had been a machine-boy in a Racine woolen mill.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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And Michael Fenger too who, not so many years before, had been a machine-boy in a Racine woolen mill.
Fanny Herself 1917
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Only the day before, Porson -- a heavy, most uninteresting man -- had been sent down all the way to Plaistow to inquire after the wounded hand of a machine-boy.
Tommy and Co. 1893
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