“lighterman”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

lighterman

释义

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

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