"book-boy" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "book-boys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "book-boy (plural book-boys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1693, W. Robertson, Phraseologia Generalis, page 215",
          "text": "A Battledore boy or Horn-book-boy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, G.A. Natesan, The Indian Review: A Monthly Journal, Volume 4, page 192",
          "text": "His first situation was as book-boy in the library of the Bristol Law Society.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, William Hughes Mulligan, Mulligan's Law: The Wit and Wisdom of William Hughes Mulligan, page 43",
          "text": "While a student at Fordham Law School I was indentured to the Association as a book-boy at Vesey Street charged with the responsibility of shelving the books in the south reading toom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A young male assigned to retrieve books, especially for patrons in a library."
      ],
      "id": "en-book-boy-en-noun--E9Lovdh",
      "links": [
        [
          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "male",
          "male"
        ],
        [
          "assigned",
          "assigned"
        ],
        [
          "retrieve",
          "retrieve"
        ],
        [
          "book",
          "book"
        ],
        [
          "especially",
          "especially"
        ],
        [
          "patron",
          "patron"
        ],
        [
          "library",
          "library"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A young male assigned to retrieve books, especially for patrons in a library."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "book-boy"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "book-boys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "book-boy (plural book-boys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1693, W. Robertson, Phraseologia Generalis, page 215",
          "text": "A Battledore boy or Horn-book-boy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, G.A. Natesan, The Indian Review: A Monthly Journal, Volume 4, page 192",
          "text": "His first situation was as book-boy in the library of the Bristol Law Society.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, William Hughes Mulligan, Mulligan's Law: The Wit and Wisdom of William Hughes Mulligan, page 43",
          "text": "While a student at Fordham Law School I was indentured to the Association as a book-boy at Vesey Street charged with the responsibility of shelving the books in the south reading toom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A young male assigned to retrieve books, especially for patrons in a library."
      ],
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          "young",
          "young"
        ],
        [
          "male",
          "male"
        ],
        [
          "assigned",
          "assigned"
        ],
        [
          "retrieve",
          "retrieve"
        ],
        [
          "book",
          "book"
        ],
        [
          "especially",
          "especially"
        ],
        [
          "patron",
          "patron"
        ],
        [
          "library",
          "library"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A young male assigned to retrieve books, especially for patrons in a library."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "book-boy"
}