What does lighterman mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lighterman, bargeman, bargeenoun

    someone who operates a barge

Wiktionary

  1. lightermannoun

    one employed on, owning, or managing a lighter

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Lightermannoun

    One who manages a lighter.

    Etymology: lighter and man.

    Where much shipping is employed, whatever becomes of the poor merchant, multitudes of people will be certain gainers; as shipwrights, butchers, carmen, and lightermen. Josiah Child, Discourse on Trade.

Wikipedia

  1. Lighterman

    A lighterman is a worker who operates a lighter, a type of flat-bottomed barge, which may be powered or unpowered. In the latter case, today it is usually moved by a powered tug. The term is particularly associated with the highly skilled men who operated the unpowered lighters moved by oar and water currents in the Port of London.

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  1. lighterman

    A lighterman is a worker who operates a lighter, a type of flat-bottomed barge, to transport goods and passengers on rivers and canals. This term especially used in the United Kingdom, particularly referring to the men who transferred goods between ships and quays on the Thames River in London.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lightermannoun

    a person employed on, or who manages, a lighter

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. lighterman

    A man employed in a lighter.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lighterman in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lighterman in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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