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grease boy

grease boy noun: a man employed in metalworking to dip sheets of tin in hot tallow to remove excess tin.

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.

Forms of grease boy

pluralgrease boys

Questions about grease boy

What does grease boy mean?
Grease boy means a man employed in metalworking to dip sheets of tin in hot tallow to remove excess tin.
What part of speech is grease boy?
Grease boy is a noun.
What is the plural of grease boy?
The plural of grease boy is grease boys.

Words near grease boy in the dictionary

  1. Grears
  2. greasable
  3. Greasbrough
  4. Greasby
  5. grease
  6. grease boy
  7. grease boys
  8. grease bug
  9. grease fitting
  10. grease gun
  11. grease guns

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