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ˈlighthouse
[f. light n.: see house n.1 2.]
a. A tower or other structure, with a powerful light or lights (originally a beacon) at the top, erected at some important or dangerous point on or near the sea-coast for the guidance of mariners. (The earlier name was pharos.)
1622Bacon Hist. Hen. VII 142 They..were executed..at diuers places vpon the Sea-Coast..for Sea-markes or Light-houses, to teach Perkins People to auoid the Coast. 1662–3Marvell Corr. xxxvii. Wks. 1872–5 II. 83, I have herewith sent you an account of your expenses about the Light-house. 1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3971/3 The Light-House upon the Edistone was blown down. 1708Ibid. No 4459/4 The 28th of July last, a Light was placed on the Light-House, Rebuilt on the Edistone-Rock off Plimouth. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 167 In approaching from Turin, we pass along the seaside to the immense lighthouse. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh (1857) 56 Perhaps I darkened, as the light-house will That turns upon the sea.
b. attrib. and Comb., as lighthouse-keeper, lighthouse-man, lighthouse service, lighthouse-tender, lighthouse-top, lighthouse-tower.
1672Evelyn Diary 14 May, From the North Foreland Light-house-top..we could see our fleete. 1738Mass. Bay Acts & Resolves (1904) XII. 513 That the sum of Fifty one Pounds..be paid..for his services as Light House Keeper. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. vi. xiv, Is this indeed The light-house top I see? 1831Scott Pirate Introd., The author was invited to join a party of Commissioners for the Northern Light-House Service. 1851Kingsley Three Fishers ii, Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower. 1866Carlyle Remin. (1881) I. 112 Lighthouse-keeper too..by far the most life-weary looking mortal I ever saw. 1889Athenæum 23 Feb. 257 (Advt.), The manners and ways of coastguardsmen, lighthousemen, and other amphibious creatures. 1901Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 1 Nov. 3/2 The lighthouse-tender Manzanita called in yesterday morning for a short stay. 1921Ibid. 16 Oct. 16/1 The lighthouse tender Berens then took up the search and..discovered the small boat sheltering behind Mouatt Reef. 1958W. Armstrong True Bk. Lighthouses & Lightships xiv. 142, I remembered, too, stories of how two lighthouse tenders and a pilot-cutter were sunk by mines in World War I. 1969Times 19 Dec. 2/5 (heading) Lighthouse man missing. |