📚 noun • entry_id 34806
lamplighter
/ˈlæmpˌlaɪ.tə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
farolero
A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn.
1,000 crossing-sweepers; another thousand chimney-sweeps, and the same number of turncocks and lamp-lighters;
I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter.
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