lamplighter

English

Etymology

From lamp +‎ lighter

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlæmpˌlaɪ.tə(ɹ)/

Noun

lamplighter (plural lamplighters)

  1. (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.

Derived terms
  • lamplighter group (in mathematics)

Translations

References
  • lamplighter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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