lamp trimmer

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noun

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

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Origin of lamp trimmer

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby lamp trimmer

lamprophony, lamprophyre, lampshade, lamp shell, lamp standard, lamp trimmer, lampworking, lampyrid, lamster, Lamus, Lamut

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.
Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916|Karl Spindler
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