Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An open flat-bottomed boat which receives the contents of the iron scoop or shovel operated by a mud-digger.
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Examples
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He had a tall, bare house143 overlooking the harbour, and had nothing to do but work himself into a rage if he saw a mud-lighter mismanaged or judged from the smoke of a steamer that she was burning cheap coal, and to superintend the making of his tomb.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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He had a tall, bare house143 overlooking the harbour, and had nothing to do but work himself into a rage if he saw a mud-lighter mismanaged or judged from the smoke of a steamer that she was burning cheap coal, and to superintend the making of his tomb.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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He had a tall, bare house143 overlooking the harbour, and had nothing to do but work himself into a rage if he saw a mud-lighter mismanaged or judged from the smoke of a steamer that she was burning cheap coal, and to superintend the making of his tomb.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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He had a tall, bare house143 overlooking the harbour, and had nothing to do but work himself into a rage if he saw a mud-lighter mismanaged or judged from the smoke of a steamer that she was burning cheap coal, and to superintend the making of his tomb.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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He had a tall, bare house143 overlooking the harbour, and had nothing to do but work himself into a rage if he saw a mud-lighter mismanaged or judged from the smoke of a steamer that she was burning cheap coal, and to superintend the making of his tomb.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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He had a tall, bare house143 overlooking the harbour, and had nothing to do but work himself into a rage if he saw a mud-lighter mismanaged or judged from the smoke of a steamer that she was burning cheap coal, and to superintend the making of his tomb.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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