† pay-boyn.Obsolete a fee-paying pupil at a school.
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1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 183 The young gentlemen of the Free School, and the pay-boys at the Rector's.
1856 P. ThompsonHist. & Antiq. Boston vi. 291 The school is kept in a house situated in Wormgate. The number of scholars is 30 on the foundation. The master is allowed to take ‘pay-boys’.