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lamplighter

noun
/ˈlæmpˌlaɪ.tə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

From lamp + lighter.

  1. inherited from lightere
  2. compounded as lamplighter — “lamp + lighter”

Definitions

  1. A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn.

    • 1,000 crossing-sweepers; another thousand chimney-sweeps, and the same number of turncocks and lamp-lighters;
    • I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter.

  2. Any device or contrivance for lighting lamps, such as a length of paper to be set alight…

    Any device or contrivance for lighting lamps, such as a length of paper to be set alight at one end.

  3. A kind of tall bicycle.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA