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lamplighter::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of lamplighter
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Lamplighter Inn Tavern and Grille will have a truck on-site to provide beer.
From the dailyherald.com
As with the lamplighter, the collector was a victim of modernisation.
From the smh.com.au
They would sneak around behind the lamplighter on Lafayette Square extinguishing the lamps he lit.
From the time.com
Lamplighter Real Estate has been just another way for her to be involved in the community, she said.
From the omaha.com
As darkness fell, the lamplighter passed, carrying an oil barrel and balancing the lamp covers on his head.
From the independent.co.uk
Lamplighter lighting a gas streetlight in Sweden, 1953.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A lamplighter lights the street lamps, the chestnut vendor and the tree vendor sell their wares, and townsfolk hustle by.
From the sacbee.com
Franzen did it again Tuesday night, scoring the Wings'second goal of the night, his 23rd lamplighter in a span of 25 games.
From the denverpost.com
Aspiring to become a lamplighter for his faith, he began taking classes in 1973 for the diaconate in the Catholic Diocese of Camden.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights
- A lamplighter, historically, was an employee of a town who lit street lights, generally by means of a wick on a long pole. At dawn, they would return and turn them off using a small hook on the same pole. ...
- The Lamplighter is a sentimental novel written by Maria Susanna Cummins published on March 1, 1854. The Lamplighter was Cummins's first novel and was an immediate best-seller, selling 20,000 copies in twenty days. The work sold 40,000 in eight weeks, and within five months it had sold 65,000. ...
- The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1885 in Penny Whistles (better known today as A Child's Garden of Verses).
- (Lamplighters) Volunteers distribute and light kerosene lanterns on the avenues leading to The Man at 3, 6, 9 and 12.
- (Lamplighters) Civilians who care for minor working lights.
- (Lamplighters) the volunteer group who lights kerosene lanterns each night of the Burning Man event to illuminate the esplanade and promenades, providing participants with valuable navigational aids.
- Designation of the PB4Y-2 Privateer when used as a FLARESHIP in the KOREAN WAR.
- Who lives on an asteroid which rotates once a minute. Long ago, he was charged with the task of lighting the lamp at night and extinguishing it in the morning. At that point, the asteroid revolved at a reasonable rate, and he had time to rest. As time went on, the rotation sped up. ...
