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Lighterman   Listen
noun
Lighterman  n.  (pl. lightermen)  A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.





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"Lighterman" Quotes from Famous Books



... who are employed during the day on land sleep in boats on the various rivers. This condition of things corresponds in some degree to that described by Captain Marryat in that fine old story "Jacob Faithful," in the early chapters of which we get diverting glimpses of life on board a Thames lighterman. But the river population of China is still more absolutely aquatic in manner of life than the Thames barge-folk. The boats in which this class of the population live have an awning of bamboo and matting fore and aft, which is removed ...
— Man on the Ocean - A Book about Boats and Ships • R.M. Ballantyne


Words linked to "Lighterman" :   jack, bargeman, sea dog, mariner, gob, Jack-tar, tar


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