lighterman
lighterman noun: one employed on, owning, or managing a lighter.
Noun
lighterman (plural lightermen)
- One employed on, owning, or managing a lighter.
- A poor lighterman, sir, one that hath had the honour sometimes to lay in the king’s beer there […]1622, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Augurs, The First Antimasque, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: D. Midwinter et al., 1756, Volume 6, p. 122
- One Dobson, a lighterman, undertook, for a wager of five guineas, to swim on his back from Westminster bridge to Putney bridge in an hour and three quarters, without turning himself in the water; which he performed 19 minutes within the time.1766 July, The Annual Register, page 115
Forms of lighterman
| plural | lightermen |
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Origin of lighterman
From lighter + -man.
Questions about lighterman
- What does lighterman mean?
- Lighterman means one employed on, owning, or managing a lighter.
- What part of speech is lighterman?
- Lighterman is a noun.
- What is the plural of lighterman?
- The plural of lighterman is lightermen.
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