Servant vs Blackboy - What's the difference?
servant | blackboy |
One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
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An Aboriginal boy or servant''.
* 1898 , Guy Boothby, Billy Binks—Hero'', republished in Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver, ''The Anthology of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction ,
* 1906 , South Australian Geology Department, Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, Robert Etheridge, Reports (geological and general) resulting from the explorations made by the government geologist and staff during 1905 ,
* 1930 , Mary Montgomerie Bennett, The Australian Aboriginal as a Human Being ,
(Australian, informal) Any plant in the genus Xanthorrhoea , native to Australia.
* 1946 , , Volume 13,
* 1966 November 8, (Parliament of Western Australia), Parliamentary Debates ,
* 1977 , Royal Society of Western Australia, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia , Volumes 60-61,
As nouns the difference between servant and blackboy
is that servant is one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation as opposed to a slave while blackboy is an aboriginal boy or servant''.As a verb servant
is (obsolete) to subject.servant
English
Alternative forms
* servaunt (obsolete) * (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* assigned servant * civil servant * manservant * maidservant * public servant * servantlyStatistics
*Anagrams
* ----blackboy
English
(wikipedia blackboy) (Xanthorrhoea) (Xanthorrhoea)Noun
(en noun)page 118,
- A moment later he beckoned the blackboy to his side, and when he arrived pointed to the ground. The boy gesticulated in answer, and then both pulled their horses to a standstill and waited for me to come up.
page 36,
- September 30th, 1905 .—Examined some hills in the locality. A Chinaman and some blackboys are camped here with some cattle belonging to the Mount Diamond butcher.
page 49,
- His tracks joined a cattle pad, and the blackboys followed them at speed, two riding on each side of the path.
page 49,
- As with many things, the pioneers followed the natives in the use of the Blackboy . They also found that the gum possessed some property that will cure dysentery and other internal complaints. The gum was also used for dyeing, tanning and varnishing.
page 2181,
- The gum from the blackboy trees was used for the making of varnish and stain,
page 5,
- As with any fire, blackboys and sedges were the first to grow, little else appearing before the first rains, which were followed by a flush of herbaceous shoots.