Citations:boylet

English citations of boylet

A male starlet

• 2008, India Today International, page 42:

  Meet the boylets, the male starlets, who fight for publicists, bitch about other boys, stage fights to catch attention, and are increasingly famous for being familiar.

Something to do with a weir

• 1887, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society:

  That John Beest, gent., shall turn the river into its former course at Crouchill Boylet. (3). That the hedges of the weirs or boylets, and the hedges at the mouths of each, shall not be more than 3 ft. in height above the ground.

• 1892, Bye-gones, page 116:

  ...after the finding of the jury their first order was that the owners of the various weirs between the place called "The Boat of Camerar" and Bewdley, shall, before the last day of March next, leave 50ft. in width of clean water in the deepest part of the river for the " ballengers ” vessels and boats to pass up and down, and remove the willows and other trees, stakes, etc. on the sides of the boylets of the said weirs.