lighterman
noun
a person who navigates a lighter.
lightermen
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pluralof lighterman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
This being accomplished, the lighters are fumigated for twenty-four hours, and then taken back by the lightermen to the Sea of Azof.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
But Riverside London was a far different place, here lived none but sailors, watermen, lightermen, and all those who had to do with ships and shipping, with the wants and the pleasures of the sailors.
From As We Are and As We May Be by Sir Walter Besant
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
The river police dragged for him, and the lightermen did all they could for some considerable time, but without success.
From Beneath the Banner by F. J. Cross
