lighterman
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lightermen
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After fifteen minutes' fruitless search, a lighterman suggested that the boy must be under the pier.
From Beneath the Banner by F. J. Cross
Born in London, the son of a Thames lighterman.
From The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers by Philip Gosse
And her grandfather was cross enough himself; for he was afraid that he had done something foolish, and broken with the lighterman.
From The Pilot and his Wife by Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie
The declaration was, that, by the common law, every lighterman ought so to manage his lighter that the goods carried therein should not perish.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
If a shipman shall have been originally a lighterman, none the less he shall remain permanently among those among whom it shall appear that his parents had been.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Joseph Cullen Ayer
The company employed lightermen - workers who used flat-bottomed barges to move goods between ships and quays - and they would pull up to collect their wages from 41 Rotherhithe Street.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2023
The Company's lightermen, too, natives of the Republic, behaved very well under their Capataz.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
The shouting of the lightermen and officers mingled with the roar and scuttle of the donkey-engine.
From The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood
These were the wherry or watermen, the lightermen, bargemen, keelmen, trowmen and canal-boat dwellers frequenting mainly the inland waterways of the country.
From The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson
A gang of riggers, stevedores, or lightermen work the vessel into the stream.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
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