lightman
English
Etymology
From light (noun) + -man.
Noun
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
Synonyms
- linkboy
- linkman
Anagrams
- Tilghman