lamplighter

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In the street the lamplighter was lighting every other lamp.

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  1. noun One that lights lamps, especially a person hired to light and extinguish gaslit streetlights.

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  • Lamplighter January 1st, 2009 by Trinalor | Filed under lamplighter (noun) essentially a kind of specialised soldier, mostly employed by the Empire, though some states also have them. —  Bookspotcentral
  • The main task of the lamplighter is to go out in the late afternoon and evening to light the bright-limn lamps that line the conduits (highways) of the Empire, and to douse them again in the early morning. —  Bookspotcentral
  • Foundling, we left the young orphan Rossamund (after accompanying him on a most adventurous journey) at Winstermill, to begin his training as a lamplighter. —  Bookspotcentral
  • May 2008 lamplighter (noun) essentially a kind of specialised soldier, mostly employed by the Empire, though some states also have them. —  Bookspotcentral
  • The chief police magistrate he compared to the lamplighter, by whom gas is detested. —  The History of Tasmania , Volume II
 

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/ˈlæmplaɪtər/
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