Definition of "lightermen" [lightermen]

• Plural form of lighterman. (noun)

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• "At that the Pool became a scene of mad confusion, fighting, and collision, and for some time a multitude of boats and barges jammed in the northern arch of the Tower Bridge, and the sailors and lightermen had to fight savagely against the people who swarmed upon them from the riverfront."
• "Greenwich Industrial History: more chimneypots and lightermen skip to main"
• "Bridge, and the sailors and lightermen had to fight savagely against the people who swarmed upon them from the riverfront."