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
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 Joseph Conrad
There some lightermen discovered him, picked him up, and carried him to the hospital; he recovered; he left the place.
From Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo
I engaged him to be the foreman of our lightermen, and caretaker of our jetty.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
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
