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Definition of Lighterman
1. Noun. Someone who operates a barge.
Generic synonyms: Gob, Jack, Jack-tar, Mariner, Old Salt, Sea Dog, Seafarer, Seaman, Tar
Derivative terms: Barge
Definition of Lighterman
1. n. A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.
Definition of Lighterman
1. Noun. (nautical) one employed on, owning, or managing a lighter ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lighterman
Literary usage of Lighterman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1907)
"... his opinion a town carman was not a common carrier, although he took chance
jobs from anyone, much as a lighterman does ; and so in the case of Ross v. ..."
2. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Published in the New Series of the Law by Edmund Story-Maskelyne (1872)
"Tho defendants sent a barge under tho management of their lighterman to a wharf
fur tho purpose of being loaded ; he was unable to get up to it in ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius: In the Courts of Queen's by Great Britain Courts, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Andrew Valentine Kirwan (1852)
"Christie, (Carrier—lighterman) 61 M'Donnell v. Evans, (Cross-examination—Letter)
Macgregor v. Galsworthy, (County Court —Notice of Action) - 8 Overton r. ..."
4. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"lighterman. —F. COMMON CARRIER. LIGHTHOUSE. —Qua Mer Shipping Act, 1894, "'Lighthouse'
shall, in addition to the ordinary meaning of the word, ..."
5. The Law of Railroad Rate Regulation: With Special Reference to American by Joseph Henry Beale, Bruce Wyman (1906)
"lighterman. TOPIC B PRIVATE BUSINESS. § 106. Employment in private business. 107.
Private ferries. ~ • 108. Private railroad. 109. Private spur tracks. 110. ..."
6. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1897)
"THE lighterman BY WILLIAM PIGOTT THE hillside gently sloping from the Huin- ber
is scarred with many pits. From the Yorkshire side you may see the white ..."
7. Reports of Cases in the County Courts Included in Circuits Nos. 45 & 46 by Henry Anselm De Colyar, Great Britain County Courts (1883)
"... whether a lighterman employed by a barge owner under certain circumstances -is
a contractor or a servant. Washington for plaintiff. ..."
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