lightermen
- plural of lighterman.
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
Light-horsemen, heavy-horsemen, game watermen, do. lightermen, scuffle-hunters, copemen, &c.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 by Various
The same year he put all the lightermen out of pay.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
These he exhibited with national pride to all the ignorant lightermen and watermen from the Nore to the Bridge.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George
The Company's lightermen saluted him from afar; and the greatly envied Capataz de Cargadores advanced, amongst murmurs of recognition and obsequious greetings, towards the huge circus-like erection.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph
