"grease boy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: grease boys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} grease boy (plural grease boys)
  1. (historical) A man employed in metalworking to dip sheets of tin in hot tallow to remove excess tin. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-grease_boy-en-noun-kXQ8eyDN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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