potboys

Then the cook's helpers, the serving girls, the potboys who served the drink.

Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Then the cook's helpers, the serving girls, the potboys who served the drink.

Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Now he was consigned to the hot kitchen and the cross-eyed cook whose best delight was to harry potboys and torment the young girls who stood in the corners to flirt with the bakers 'lads.

Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

Men of property and breeding, not broken potboys and scarlet-coated pickpockets like what you are.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

In the kitchens it looked as if after executing the cooks, cook's helpers, wine stewards, assistants, dishwashers, potboys, spit boys, and scullions, the invaders had sat down and had a drunken feast.

Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995

Cooks and scullions and potboys all but ran at their work; the spit dogs trotted in their wicker wheels to turn the spitted meats.

The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990

Wat rose to go and cope with the custom that was overwhelming his two potboys, and Philip sat brooding with his chin on his fist.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

Wat rose to go and cope with the custom that was overwhelming his two potboys, and Philip sat brooding with his chin on his fist.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

Pushing my way through the townsmen who had gathered, and whose numbers were swelled every moment by the afflux of aproned grocers, and potboys, and 'prentices, and others from the streets, I saw

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

Noisily the party ranged about the table, and sat themselves upon the benches, while the drawers, or potboys, in their shirts, drew near to take the orders.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922