lamp trimmer

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of lamp trimmer¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

You've got a carpenter and a lamp trimmer and a bo'sun and a squad of quartermasters.

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The grotesque and massive aspect of that deck hand (I suppose he was that—very likely the lamp-trimmer) surprised me very much.

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

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

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Run forwards and see what that lazy lubber of a lamp-trimmer is about.

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