Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man who manages a lighter; one employed on a lighter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
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- noun nautical one employed on, owning, or managing a
lighter
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who operates a barge
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sid, like his father before him, was a lighterman, "driving" barges around the London docks.
Sid Staden obituary 2011
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“Toward Greenwich!” he told the lighterman, and they pushed off into the sparkling current.
The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007
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Uster be a lighterman but it done no good to me chubes.
Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966
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"Don't say another word," exclaimed the lighterman.
Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island Vance Barnum
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The Professor will also combat the erroneous impression derived from the dark ages of SHAKSPEARE's time, that the Moon, or the Man in it, -- probably a lime-lighterman, -- ought servilely to follow the movements, in order to throw light upon them, of the Principal Performer.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 6, 1892 Various
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Matthew Flood was the son of a man who kept the Clink Prison [28] in the parish of St. Mary Overys, who had given him as good an education as was in his power, and bound him apprentice to one Mr. Williams, a lighterman.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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QUELCH worked as a lighterman on a barge fourteen years for eighteen bob a-week.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 Various
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Their suspicions were fully confirmed therein by the lighterman who saw Billings and Wood throw the same into the dock, as before mentioned.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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The Fatima, with a great deal of fussy ringing of bells and churning of the river, backed out of her position, sidled round the outer fringe of the turmoil, and pushed her way in backwards towards the quay-side, directed by the shouts of Tom Wild and the lighterman.
The Port of London Murders Bell, Josephine, 1897-1987 1938
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He flicked the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand and grinned at the second lighterman.
The Port of London Murders Bell, Josephine, 1897-1987 1938
knitandpurl commented on the word lighterman
"Early in the morning, a straggle of dockers and lightermen on the quay, a bunch of old women and a few mothers, not mine."
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch, p 66 of the Doubleday hardcover edition
January 10, 2012