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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who carries a lantern.
- n. One who empties privies by lantern-light; a night-man.
- n. One who operates a projection or magic lantern.
Examples
“She seemed accustomed to being waited on, and watched without emotion the guard and the solitary railway official -- porter, station-master, telegraph-operator and lantern-man, all rolled into one -- haul her hundredweights of luggage out of the train.”
“I took the big stone they had loosened with their tools and tumbled it down the well of the stairway, where, after rebounding once, it stuck at the turn and made a good foundation for the barrels, boxes and packages we threw down till the whole space was choke full, and then I danced on the top and defied the lantern-man and Dick to get through in a week.”
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