lamplighter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn.

   1,000 crossing-sweepers; another thousand chimney-sweeps, and the same number of turncocks and lamp-lighters;

2. 2
   noun

   Any device or contrivance for lighting lamps, such as a length of paper to be set alight at one end.

   […] and finally, laughing and all tired out, they stopped to rest and to think of some other game. They played “Buz” till they were rested, and then “Genteel Lady,” where every time a little girl made a mistake she had to have a lamplighter stuck in her hair.

From lamp + lighter.

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