lamplighter
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlæmpˌlaɪ.tə(ɹ)/
Noun
lamplighter (plural lamplighters)
- (historical) A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn.
- 1905, E. W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night
- 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.
- 1905, E. W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night
Derived terms
- lamplighter group (in mathematics)
Translations
a person employed to light streetlights
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References
- lamplighter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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