n. a person responsible for dispensing the liquor at a barn raising, logging bee, etc.
See also: grog-boss
- 1903  Old men to-day tell me that they were mere lads then, and were the "whiskey-boys" at these loggings.
- 1933  The amount of whisky distributed at bees by the "whiskey-boys," "grogmen" or "grog-bosses" was so great that there are records of as much as eighty gallons consumed at one bee.