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Definition of Lightermen

Lightermen
Lighterman Light"er*man (-m[a^]n), n.; pl. Lightermen (-m[e^]n). A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.

Meaning of Lightermen from wikipedia

- unpowered lighters moved by oar and water currents in the Port of London. Lightermen were one of the most characteristic groups of workers in London's docks...
- The Company of Watermen and Lightermen (CWL) is a historic City guild in the City of London. However, unlike the city's 111 livery companies, CWL does...
- As with their English counterparts, lightermen in Singapore were men who worked on a lighter or on a barge. Their primary role was to transport cargo between...
- The Free Watermen and Lightermen's Almshouses (generally known as the Royal Watermen's Almshouses) on Beckenham Road / Penge High Street, Penge, London...
- Pipers Island, or Piper's Island, is the third-smallest map-named island in the River Thames, in England. It is on the Reading, Berkshire reach (the head...
- combined with their colleagues in cargo to form the Company of Watermen and Lightermen. The free water clause, introduced by the West India Dock Act of 1799...
- Lightermen and Bargemen was a trade union in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1889 as the Amalgamated Society of Watermen and Lightermen of...
- power of water currents. They were operated by skilled workers called lightermen and were a characteristic sight in London's docks until about the 1960s...
- the Royal Watermen, drawn from the ranks of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen. In 1798, Watermen and other groups of river tradesmen on the River Thames...
- and rubber; and so on. The docks required an army of workers, chiefly lightermen (who carried loads between ships and quays aboard small barges called...