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lighter

[ UK /lˈa‍ɪtɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫaɪtɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
  2. a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
  3. a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
    do you have a light?
VERB
  1. transport in a flatbottom boat

How To Use lighter In A Sentence

  • The lightship has had uplighters added to its fore and aft masts with lighting units added around its deck and jetty.
  • Instead, we decided to hang up the heavier long underwear like regular clothing and simply bundle our lighter underwear with a rubber band.
  • He agreed to give evidence in return for a lighter sentence.
  • Ships had to discharge their cargoes at congested anchorages either into horse drawn lighters or onto packhorses for the journey to the industrial centre.
  • A brief program with music and merriment begins the ceremony, then an honorary candlelighter lights his or her candle and starts passing it along through the crowd. Zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News
  • Under that scale, brown is measured as dark grey, whereas shades of rust and buff are lighter grey.
  • They would let whole milk stand for several hours until the lighter cream rose to the top.
  • Pros, from what I've read, is that mirror pentaprisms are lighter, can be made smaller to save space, and are cheaper to manufacture than glass pentaprisms.
  • There is only so long you can ignore that kind of behaviour, even knowing that the little blighter has a bowl filled to the brim with tasty kitty treats in the kitchen.
  • The largest of Washington's pigeons and doves, it is all gray, with a lighter gray, banded tail.
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