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What is a potboy?

What is a potboy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A boy employed as waiter to serve (pots of) drinks, as in a tavern.
  2. (Britain) a boy or man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses.
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His prediction was quite accurate, for I had to tell him, after not many days, of the potboy who shot at the queen.
And Pineapple Poll features the comic love knot of Poll, swashbuckling Captain Belaye, Jasper the potboy of the local inn and the beautiful Blanche.
He had to pass by the bar, and the barmaid and the potboy looked at him very hard.
The unaccustomed visitor from the outside naturally assumed everybody to be prisonerslandlord, waiter, barmaid, potboy and all.
David Beckham was once even a potboy at the Stow, earning extra pocket money collecting empty glasses.
There were others who traced a friendship between the potboy at The Duchess and a son of one of the messengers.

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