link boy

English

From link (“torch, light”) +‎ boy.

link boy (plural link boys)

(historical) A boy employed to carry a torch or other light at night to help people navigate through the streets.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, OCLC 28228280:
  “Servants is in the arms o' Porpus, I think,” said the short chairman, warming his hands at the attendant link-boy’s torch.
- 2009, Dan Cruikshank, The Secret History of Georgian London, Random House 2009, p. 94:
  By the early eighteenth century link-boys had long been part of London's criminal and sexual mythology.

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

单词	link boy
释义	link boy English Alternative forms link-boy, linkboy Etymology From link (“torch, light”) +‎ boy. Noun link boy (plural link boys) (historical) A boy employed to carry a torch or other light at night to help people navigate through the streets. 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, OCLC 28228280: “Servants is in the arms o' Porpus, I think,” said the short chairman, warming his hands at the attendant link-boy’s torch. 2009, Dan Cruikshank, The Secret History of Georgian London, Random House 2009, p. 94: By the early eighteenth century link-boys had long been part of London's criminal and sexual mythology. Synonyms linkman torchbearer References Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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