lighterman

American  

[lahy-ter-muhn] / ˈlaɪ tər mən /

noun

plural

lightermen

1. a person who navigates a lighter.

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Etymology

Origin of lighterman

First recorded in 1550–60; lighter ² + -man

Example Sentences

“You see, your genuine lighterman ain’t a lively sort of a chap, the natur’ of his profession won’t lot him be; for he’s always doing things in a quiet, slow, easy-going fashion.

From Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by Fenn, George Manville

Their suspicions were fully confirmed therein by the lighterman who saw Billings and Wood throw the same into the dock, as before mentioned.

From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.

Now he was a lighterman on the Seine rafts.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

After fifteen minutes' fruitless search, a lighterman suggested that the boy must be under the pier.

From Beneath the Banner by Cross, F. J.

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 Gosse, Philip