lightman
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
lightman (plural lightmen)
- A man who carries or takes care of a light.
- c. 1680s?, Tom Brown, The Practical Quaker; or, the New-Lights
The Stars might go to sleep a-nights,
And leave their work to these new-Light
The Midwife Moon might mind her Calling ,
And noisy Lightman leave his Bawling
- c. 1680s?, Tom Brown, The Practical Quaker; or, the New-Lights