English

Noun

lightmans ‎(uncountable)

1. (archaic, Britain, cant) The day.
   • 1612, Dekker, Thomas, Lanthorne and Candle-light:

     And then to the Trin'de on the chutes, in the lightmans / The Bube & Ruffian cly the Harman beck & harmans.

   • 2012, Ross, Kate, A Broken Vessel:

     Mr. Kestrel's out to dinner with some of his pals, and he 'most never comes home till lightmans.

Antonyms

• darkmans

Derived terms

• bene lightmans

References

• Grose, Francis (1788) A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper
• Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume 2, page 17
• Farmer, John Stephen (1896) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 4, page 195–196