lamplightern.
/ˈlampˌlʌɪtə/, U.S. /ˈlæmpˌlaɪdər/ 1. One who lights lamps; one whose business it is to light the street lamps. like a lamplighter: said with allusion to the rapidity with which the lamplighter ran on his rounds, or climbed the ladders formerly used to reach the street lamps.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > gaslight or lamp > man who lights gas streetlights
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gas lighter1826
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > moving swiftly in specific manner [phrase] > with briskness
like a lamplightera1813
like one o'clock1847
1752 H. Baker in Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 601 A Lamp-lighter was giving an Account, that [etc.].
1776 Court & City Reg. 167/2 John Bird, master lamp lighter.
a1813 A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 11 So Dempster and Brodie, in Co., Like lamplighters ran to the baker's.
1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. xiii. 189 Skim up the rigging like a lamp-lighter.
1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 68 That's Lucifer, flying about like a lamplighter.
1874 F. C. Burnand My Time ii. 12 The arrival of the lamplighter in the winter-time was quite the event of the day.
2. U.S. A contrivance for lighting lamps; e.g. a spill of paper, a torch, or an electric appliance.
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1833 J. Neal Down-easters II. 115 One side is clean, said she,—and it will do for lamplighters.
1859 E. Dickinson Lett. (1894) I. 194 Please, now I write so often, make lamplighter of me.
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3. U.S. regional. The calico bass. In recent (American) dictionaries.
4. A North American freshwater sunfish of the genus Pomoxis, esp. the white crappie, P. annularis.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Pomoxys
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sac-à-lait1884
1877 1st Ann. Rep. Ohio State Fish Comm. 77 P[omoxys] hexacanthus... Strawberry Bass;..Lamp-lighter, of Portsmouth.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 69 The names ‘Bitter Head’ and ‘Lamplighter’ are also ascribed to it [sc. the Strawberry Perch].
1892 C. F. Lummis Tramp across Continent 33 For three years I had been fairly starving for a bout with these beauties—a hunger which the catfish and ‘lamplighters’ of Ohio had utterly failed to satisfy.
1947 B. W. Dalrymple Panfish 84 Here, my friend, are the various names by which you would address that little gamester, the Crappie, depending on where you happened to be at the moment: Bachelor,..Lake Bass, Lake Erie Bass, Lamplighter.
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