Lighterman

Quick meaning: Lighterman is a noun meaning (nautical) One employed on, owning, or managing a lighter.

Meaning

(nautical) One employed on, owning, or managing a lighter.

Example Sentences

[Alex Smith] was a lighterman on the Thames at the time Bligh was signing on the Bounty men, but he hated the business and was only waiting for a suitable opportunity to go to sea again.

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, A poor lighterman, sir, one that hath had the honour sometimes to lay in the king’s beer there […]

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.

At that the Pool became a scene of mad confusion, fighting, and collision, and for some time a multitude of boats and barges jammed in the northern arch of the Tower Bridge, and the sailors and lightermen had to fight savagely against the people who swarmed upon them from the riverfront.

Word Forms

• lightermen

Synonyms for lighterman

Depending on context, synonyms include bargeman, bargee.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bargee, bargeman, lightkeeper, lightman, lighter, loadsman.

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