"hawk boy" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1867, Arthur Ashpitel, Treatise on Architecture",
          "text": "The hawk boy's server is about the size and shape of a common garden hoe, but the handle is in the direction of the instrument.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1879, The Builder, page 1301",
          "text": "Whenever any mischief or damage was done, rightly or wrongly, the plasterers' hawk-boys always had the credit of it. The plasterers of London should rejoice that the hawk-boys are abolished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, William Millar, Plastering: Plain and Decorative, page 550",
          "text": "In London and the South of England plasterers formerly had attendants called \"hawk-boys,\" each pair of plasterers having one to wait upon them. The hawk-boy's duty was to knock up and gauge all the materials, keep the men's tools clean, look after the warming of their meals, and serve the materials when gauged.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A plasterer's (male) attendant who supplied him with mortar."
      ],
      "id": "en-hawk_boy-en-noun-31lQHLDX",
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          "attendant",
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          "mortar",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(dated) A plasterer's (male) attendant who supplied him with mortar."
      ],
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  "word": "hawk boy"
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        {
          "ref": "1867, Arthur Ashpitel, Treatise on Architecture",
          "text": "The hawk boy's server is about the size and shape of a common garden hoe, but the handle is in the direction of the instrument.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1879, The Builder, page 1301",
          "text": "Whenever any mischief or damage was done, rightly or wrongly, the plasterers' hawk-boys always had the credit of it. The plasterers of London should rejoice that the hawk-boys are abolished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, William Millar, Plastering: Plain and Decorative, page 550",
          "text": "In London and the South of England plasterers formerly had attendants called \"hawk-boys,\" each pair of plasterers having one to wait upon them. The hawk-boy's duty was to knock up and gauge all the materials, keep the men's tools clean, look after the warming of their meals, and serve the materials when gauged.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A plasterer's (male) attendant who supplied him with mortar."
      ],
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        "(dated) A plasterer's (male) attendant who supplied him with mortar."
      ],
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