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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as mess-boy.

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Examples

  • I was galley-boy, mess-man, the lowest of callings

    Men of the Sea 2001

  • A mess office is provided, and all the accessories required for the mess waiters 'department, including pantry, plate-closet and cellarage, and for the kitchen or mess-man's department, with also a quarter for the mess-man.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • The mess-man takes an ice-axe and chips frozen seal meat in the passage by the light of a blubber lamp.

    South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918

  • I took my message to the old farm where the officers was billeted an 'the mess-man takes my note in.

    Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

  • They announce that mess-man Pepere is going to the rear, to be sent to a Territorial regiment, having come under the operation of the Dalbiez Act. "That's a hint for Blaire," says Carassus, who has a funny big nose in the middle of his face that suits him ill.

    Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

  • The mess-man was there, and would see that a man held my horse.

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The mess-man was there, and would see that a man held my horse.

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Ritchie Sahib had left half a dozen bottles of the latter, but since the Sahib was a friend of Ritchie Sahib, and he, the mess-man, was a poor man --

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Ritchie Sahib had left half a dozen bottles of the latter, but since the Sahib was a friend of Ritchie Sahib, and he, the mess-man, was a poor man --

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Then to the mess-man: 'Easy with them there bottles.

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

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