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lamplighter

lamplighter

English

Noun

lamplighter (plural lamplighters)

  1. (historical) A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn.

Derived terms

  • lamplighter group (in mathematics)

Translations

References

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