ˈlighterman
[f. lighter n.1 + man n.]
1. One employed on or owning a lighter.
| 1558 Act 1 Eliz. c. 11 §6 Any Wharfinger,..Lyghterman, Weigter or other Officer. 1608 H. Wright in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1887) I. 126 To paye the lyter men for caryinge downe the plancks. 1766 Entick London IV. 145 Lightermen..are to be of the society of watermen and wherrymen. 1861 Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xxi. (1889) 198 He believes that the men of the uppermost bank [of a trireme] rowed somehow like lightermen on the Thames. 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. i. i, He could not be a lighterman or river-carrier. |
2. ? = lighter n.1 (Cf. Indiaman; also lightman.)
| 1769 Ann. Reg. 132 The flames..destroyed..two large lightermen on the river. |