lamp trimmer
noun
a sailor responsible for keeping the oil lamps of a ship burning brightly, especially the deck and navigation lamps.
Origin of lamp trimmer
1First recorded in 1880–85
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How to use lamp trimmer in a sentence
You've got a carpenter and a lamp trimmer and a bo'sun and a squad of quartermasters.
Command | William McFeeThe grotesque and massive aspect of that deck hand (I suppose he was that—very likely the lamp-trimmer) surprised me very much.
A Personal Record | Joseph ConradWe could thus, at any rate, say that we had our lamps burning, and throw the blame of their condition upon the lamp-trimmer.
Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916 | Karl SpindlerHere, as I conjectured, I found old Greazer, our lamp-trimmer.
The Ghost Ship | John C. HutchesonRun forwards and see what that lazy lubber of a lamp-trimmer is about.
The Ghost Ship | John C. Hutcheson
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