water boy
a person who carries a canteen or bucket of drinking water to those too occupied to fetch it, as to soldiers, laborers, or football players.
a person who sees that livestock is supplied with water, as by filling water troughs.
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Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars | Lester ChadwickOn his plantation Henson served as water-boy, butler and finally as a field hand, experiencing the usual hardship of the slave.
Little Jim wanted to leave school and be a water boy and his father's helper.
Still Jim | Honor Willsie MorrowThe water-boy was humped over the horn of his saddle as if he had found a stomach-ache in the breathless gallop.
The King of Arcadia | Francis LyndeHe even holds up the Greek who came luggin' in the fresh towels, and Tony the spring water boy.
Torchy As A Pa | Sewell Ford
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