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whisky-boy
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person responsible for dispensing the liquor at a barn raising, logging bee, etc.
See: grog-boss
Quotations
1903
Old men to-day tell me that they were mere lads then, and were the "whiskey-boys" at these loggings.
1933
The amount of whisky distributed at bees by the "whiskey-boys," "grogmen" or "grog-bosses" was so great that there are records of as much as eighty gallons consumed at one bee.