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churn boy en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A boy employed to carry or collect milk churns for a farm or dairy.
    • About twenty years back, William Cody, churn-boy to a person near Cork, had, after finishing his day's work, to go through six or eight fields to his own house, about twelve o'clock at night. 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 521:

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