lamp trimmer


noun
  1. a sailor responsible for keeping the oil lamps of a ship burning brightly, especially the deck and navigation lamps.

Origin of lamp trimmer

1
First 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 McFee
  • The 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 Conrad
  • We could thus, at any rate, say that we had our lamps burning, and throw the blame of their condition upon the lamp-trimmer.

  • Here, as I conjectured, I found old Greazer, our lamp-trimmer.

    The Ghost Ship | John C. Hutcheson
  • Run forwards and see what that lazy lubber of a lamp-trimmer is about.

    The Ghost Ship | John C. Hutcheson