lamplighter

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈlæmpˌlaɪ.tə(ɹ)/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn. historical
    — 1,000 crossing-sweepers; another thousand chimney-sweeps, and the same number of turncocks and lamp-lighters;
  2. Any device or contrivance for lighting lamps, such as a length of paper to be set alight at one end. historical
    — […] 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.
  3. A kind of tall bicycle.

词形变化

lamplighters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
lamplighter group

词源

From lamp + lighter.
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