Lighter is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIGHTER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to convey by lighter
• To convey by a lighter, as to or from the shore; as, to lighter the cargo of a ship.
• transport in a flatbottom boat
• convey in a type of flat-bottomed barge
NOUN:
• a large open boat used in loading and unloading ships
• a device that produces a small flame, especially one used to light cigarettes
• a flat-bottomed barge or other unpowered boat used to transfer goods to and from ships in harbour.
• device for lighting cigarettes etc
• One who, or that which, lights; as, a lighter of lamps.
• A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery.
• a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
• a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
• a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having little weight
• to convey in a type of barge

Words related to LIGHTER

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Words that contain LIGHTER

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How to use LIGHTER in a sentence

• It was with a lighter heart than usual that he bent his steps homeward, for he knew that the dollar would be heartily welcome.
• Various lighter articles shot past him and disappeared over the side.
• Thinking that they could hardly accomplish this in open war, they took an equipment of lighter armament, and went to Sweden alone.
• At the end of another half-hour it was growing lighter, yet the breath of storm seemed nearer.
• At the far end of the blue basin was a break and a gleam of lighter water to show that this was not really a lake but a stream.
• The only difference I could observe between the male and female is that the female is rather larger than the male, and her colours somewhat lighter.
• The horses tossed their heads and drew their load bravely, as if the new burden had made it lighter.
• I was married, and had left the lighter loves of the world for a more lasting and responsible one.
• Opportunities for advancement now opening for their children, both parents found the heavy burdens growing lighter.
• But popular taste was so corrupted that no one noticed it and everybody who wrote in the lighter vein fell into the same habits.
• Mile after mile, however, the captain rode without hearing one of the anticipated sounds, and the further he rode the lighter it grew.
• Tired as he was, the bleating of the sheep, the clear ring of the bell on Black Bolly, and the faint tinkle of lighter bells on some of the rams, drove away sleep for a while.
• If the bread is to be baked at once, the greater the dispatch with which it can be gotten into a properly-heated oven the lighter it will be.
• With some brands of Graham flour the rolls will be much lighter if one third white flour be used.
• Until the young men have had a little more training, we wish, if possible, to save them from the consequences of their lighter misdeeds.
• He wished it were a little lighter so that he might see what he was doing.
• Now the clouds appear lighter and lighter, and look as though the sunlight would burst through them.
• A second lighter wrench completed the task, and the door was noiselessly set aside, though Jim was trembling in every muscle.
• The first lighter was nearly discharged, when the captain asked the agent to pay the freight.
• No Grecian nymph could have trod with lighter or surer step nor have unconsciously offered to the eye more supple and beautiful lines of limb and body.
• I said that so the judge would give her a lighter sentence.

Similar words containing LIGHT without suffix er

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