Definition of "lighthouse keeper" [lighthouse keeper]

• A person who lives in a lighthouse and tends the light together with its optics and mechanisms. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "It was discovered in 1894 by a lighthouse keeper named Lyall—or, to be more precise, it was discovered by one of Lyall’s cats."
• "Give me five minutes to remove the dragons from downstairs, and the coast, as the fogbound lighthouse keeper said to his wife, will be clear.”"
• "I'd had some experience of death certificates and coroners and such a couple of years ago, when I'd been a temporary lighthouse keeper and had spotted a woman's dead body rolling over and over in the waves breaking on the rocks along the shoreline of Monterey Bay."