lighter

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that ignites or kindles.
2. n. A mechanical device for lighting a cigarette, cigar, or pipe.
3. n. A large flatbottom barge, especially one used to deliver or unload goods to or from a cargo ship or transport goods over short distances.
4. v. To convey (cargo) in a lighter.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who or that which lights or illuminates; specifically, a torch or an electric device for lighting candles or gasjets. A simple form of lighter is a strip of paper rolled into a tapering tube.
2. n. plural Blinkers for a horse.
3. n. A boat or vessel, commonly an open flat-bottomed barge, but sometimes decked, used in lightening or unloading and also in loading ships, and for receiving and transporting for short distances passengers or goods, or materials of any kind, usually in a harbor.
4. To convey or transport in or as in a lighter, as goods or cargo.
5. To be employed in the business of transporting goods by means of a lighter.
6. n. Same as lafter.

Wiktionary

1. adj. comparative form of light: more light
2. n. A small, reusable, handheld device for creating fire, especially for lighting cigarettes.
3. adj. comparative form of light: more light
4. n. A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).
5. v. To transfer cargo or fuel from a ship, lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, lights.
2. n. (Naut.) A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery.
3. v. To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
2. n. a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
3. v. transport in a flatbottom boat
4. n. a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires