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Definition of Lighthouse keeper
1. Noun. The keeper of a lighthouse.
Definition of Lighthouse keeper
1. Noun. A person who tends a lighthouse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lighthouse Keeper
Literary usage of Lighthouse keeper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of Its Inhabitants by Jerome Klapka Jerome, Bernard Partridge (1889)
"... The lighthouse keeper comes out with a lantern. The boat is run in among the
breakers, and all are saved ! And then the band plays. ..."
2. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States, of by United States, Edward Thompson Company (1918)
"That hereafter every lighthouse keeper and assistant lighthouse keeper in the
Lighthouse Service of the United States shall be entitled to receive one ..."
3. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1895)
"The future lighthouse-keeper has to do temporary duty at different houses, ...
Life on board a lightship differs little from that of a lighthouse-keeper. ..."
4. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1896)
"THE lighthouse keeper. mesa is an attractive one ; and the lighthouse is always
interesting in itself and for the charming views its tower affords. ..."
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