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Definition of Billyboy
1. n. A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.
Definition of Billyboy
1. Noun. (U.K.) A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Billyboy
1. a cargo boat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billyboy
Literary usage of Billyboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia by Herbert Warington Smyth (1906)
"124 billyboy, . . . .127 billyboy, . . . .128 Old Goole ... Smack or billyboy,
1835, . . 128 Mule, . .130 Coble—Reefed, . .131 A Herring Mule, ..."
2. Marion Fay: A Novel by Anthony Trollope (1882)
"Lady Di Peacocke married Mr. billyboy, who was a clerk in one of the offices.
... Mr. billyboy can't keep a carriage for her, but that of course is her ..."
3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1897)
"... and Mrs. M.'s ch. filly Toddles, rising two years, and our three-year old colt
billyboy, were rehearsing in the nursery the endless little comedy which ..."
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