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Definition of Billyboys
1. billyboy [n] - See also: billyboy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billyboys
Literary usage of Billyboys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Diary North and South by William Howard Russell (1863)
"How different the graceful, tautly-rigged, clean, white-sailed vessels from the
round-sterned, lumpish billyboys and nondescripts of the eastern coast of ..."
2. A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England, in the Summer of by George Head (1836)
"... different titles ; as regards these Carlisle boats, be they lighters, smacks,
sloops, billyboys, or what not, they arc in size equal to small brigs. ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1876)
"A brilliant sunset flooded the Humber with crimson, and brought out in all their
vivid colours the green-painted ' billyboys,' and smacks with dark-red ..."
4. Random Recollections of the Midland Circuit by Robert Walton (1873)
"... taties out o't billy-boys ower t'bank into t'rawd," which being interpreted
means, they carry potatoes out of the billyboys over the bank into the road. ..."
5. Peter Parley's Annual. by William Martin (1866)
"... "ships' boats;" the boats of billyboys, trading sloops, coal-brigs, and the
like; huge, lumbering, tench-nosed, ugly-looking, thick-ribbed aquatics, ..."
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