Lighterman
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One employed on, owning, or managing a lighter.
"1622, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Augurs, The First Antimasque, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: D. Midwinter et al., 1756, Volume 6, p. 122, A poor lighterman, sir, one that hath had the honour sometimes to lay in the king’s beer there […]"
- 2 a man who operates a barge wordnet
Example
More examples"1622, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Augurs, The First Antimasque, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: D. Midwinter et al., 1756, Volume 6, p. 122, A poor lighterman, sir, one that hath had the honour sometimes to lay in the king’s beer there […]"
Etymology
From lighter + -man.
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