lighterman
Americannoun
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lightermen
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Origin of lighterman
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After old Jacob had fallen into ill health, lighterman Kristiansen used to come out oftener to Torungen with provisions and other necessaries; and his visits now became periodical.
From The Pilot and his Wife by Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie
He called out to a lighterman, named George Woolass and another man who were on board of the vessel, to bring a boat and get the animal out.
From The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Henry Woodcock
“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 George Manville Fenn
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
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 Arthur L. Hayward
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 shouting of the lightermen and officers mingled with the roar and scuttle of the donkey-engine.
From The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood
A yell of fright responded, as Tarascon precipitated itself madly towards the exit, women and children, lightermen, cap-poppers, even the brave Commandant Bravida himself.
From Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet
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
The same year he put all the lightermen out of pay.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
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