lamplighter

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn.
2. noun Any device or contrivance for lighting lamps, such as a length of paper to be set alight at one end.
3. noun A kind of tall bicycle.

Similar words

lamper lampman lampist lampadarius lightman moonlighter lampadephore light jockey candlelighter lampkeeper

Often followed by

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Word family

lamplighters