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Billy   /bˈɪli/   Listen
noun
Billy  n.  
1.
A club; esp., a policeman's club. Also called billy club
2.
(Wool Manuf.) A slubbing or roving machine.





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"Billy" Quotes from Famous Books



... "is where they have the elevator that you work yourself. Billy Molineux and I got caught in it between the third and ...
— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris
... naturally the man who drives the stock, and the 'stockwhip' a peculiar short-handled long whip with which he drives them. A 'cabbage-tree' is an immense sun-protecting hat, rather like the top of a cabbage-tree in shape. It is much affected by bushmen. A 'billy' is the tin pot in which the bushman boils his tea; a 'pannikin,' the tin bowl out of which he drinks it. A 'waler' is a bushman who is 'on the loaf.' He 'humps his drum,' or 'swag,' and starts on the wallaby track;' i.e., shoulders the bundle containing his worldly ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
... broker, did wed Ysobel, Her shape counted most in his eyes, Now her figure's no more, and Billy is sore, For he finds he ...
— Why They Married • James Montgomery Flagg
... Best, in the evening, saw a wild hog, between which and the bush they got unperceived. They each had a shot at him, as he ran past them, and being wounded in the head, he ran staggering amongst the fallen timber. A little spaniel dog, called Billy, of the King Charles's breed, which happened to be with the party, seized the hog by the ear. At the same time a soldier ran up to despatch the animal with a large stick, and not observing the dog in ...
— The Wreck on the Andamans • Joseph Darvall
... cradle of the Renaissance when its old Romanesque and Byzantine parents died. That whatnot was covered with tiny china dogs and cats, such as we benighted American Goths buy for ten cents a dozen to fill up the crevices in Billy's and Bobby's Christmas stockings. Fancy inkstands stood cheek by jowl with wire flower-baskets that were stuffed with crewel roses of such outrageous hues as would make the Angel of Color blaspheme. Cut-glass spoon-holders kept in countenance shining plated table-casters eternally and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various


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