Definition of "lightered" [lightered]

• Simple past tense and past participle of lighter. (verb)

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• "We lightered it, set up the tent, and as it was now but a short hour to sundown I bade them leave me and make their search."
• "Much enemy food was being lightered up the Dead Sea, and he asked me to note this traffic as a second objective if the effort to Tafileh prevailed."
• "The rails had to come around Cape Horn or via the Isthmus of Panama to get to San Francisco, then were lightered (taken by smaller ships) to Sacramento, then taken by rail (and, until 1868, by wagon or sled over the summit after Cisco) to the end of track."