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train boy
train boy n. now historical (a) (U.S. and Canadian) a boy selling newspapers, etc., on a railway train; (b) Coal Mining a boy accompanying a train in a mine to assist with its running.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of
bawdy-basket1567
ballad-monger1598
land-pirate1608
map-monger1639
bookwoman1647
mercury1648
second-hand bookseller1656
Bible-seller1707
map-seller1710
stall-man1761
book auctioneer1776
scrap-monger1786
colporteur1796
death-hunter1851
train boy1852
speech-crier1856
roarer1865
looker-out1894
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who works with trams, tubs, etc.
coal putter1708
foal1770
onsetter1789
putter1812
headsman1813
trapper1815
thruster1825
trammer1839
train boy1852
tram1856
hanger-on1858
tipper1861
hooker-on?1881
jiggerer?1881
hitcher1890
tub-loader1891
haulier1892
tilter1892
unhooker1892
flatter1894
jagger1900
thrutcher1901
tram-boy1904
filler1921
1852 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 23 Aug. The train-boy undertook to fill his lamp from a large can of camphine.
1854 Minutes of Evid. 82 in First Rep. Select Comm. Accidents Coal Mines (House of Commons) The signals directed by the ‘viewer,’ must be given by the ‘train boy’.
1872 Harper's Mag. Mar. 638/2 He was going down to St. Paul to join the session, when a train-boy passed through the car.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 10/2 Scarcely any observer has omitted to complain of the importunities of the train-boy [on American railways], with his merchandise of bananas and candies and chewing gum and dime novels.
1930 Classified Index Occupations Fifteenth Census (U.S. Bureau of Census) 41/2 (table) Train boy, coal mine.
1994 R. Paige Death at Bishop's Keep ii. 5 Frank Leslie, whose Popular Monthly was hawked by every train boy on every railway in the country.
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