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lamplighter

Noun

lamp=light=er

WORDNET DICTIONARY

lamplighter(n = noun.person) Array - (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights; Array

lamplighter, n.

One who, or that which, lights a lamp; [1913 Webster]
"He made the night a little brighter
Wherever he did go,
The old lamplighter
Of long, long ago." [PJC]
The calico bass. [1913 Webster]
A device used to light lamps. [PJC]

lamplighter, n.
1 hist. a person who lights street lamps.
2 US a spill for lighting lamps.

Idiom

like a lamplighter with great speed.

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