• link-boy,linkboy

Fromlink(“torch, light”) +‎boy.

linkboy (plurallink boys)

1. (historical) A boy employed to carry atorch or otherlight at night to help people navigate through the streets.
   • 1836 March –1837 October,Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, inThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London:Chapman and Hall, […], published1837,→OCLC:

     “Servants is in the arms o' Porpus, I think,” said the short chairman, warming his hands at the attendantlink-boy’s torch.

   • 2009,Dan Cruikshank,The Secret History of Georgian London, Random House, page94:

     By the early eighteenth centurylink-boys had long been part of London's criminal and sexual mythology.

• linkman
• torchbearer

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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