Meaning of Lamplighter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn.
   historical
2. Any device or contrivance for lighting lamps, such as a length of paper to be set alight at one end.
   historical
3. A kind of tall bicycle.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[…] and finally, laughing and all tired out, they stopped to rest⟳ and to think⟳ of some other game. They played “Buz” till they were rested, and then “Genteel Lady,” where every time a little girl made a mistake⟳ she had to have⟳ a lamplighter stuck in her hair.”

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