Lighters is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIGHTERS in dictionary:

VERB:
• LIGHTER, to convey by lighter
NOUN:
• 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.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to convey in a type of barge

Words related to LIGHTERS

lighter11 lightered14 lightering15

Words that contain LIGHTERS

blighters15 plighters15 slighters13 delighters15 uplighters16 downlighters20 firelighters19 highlighters23 lamplighters20 limelighters18 moonlighters18 candlelighters21

How to use LIGHTERS in a sentence

• Lying on the beach, on the rocks, on the lighters, they cried on the Mother of God.
• Ships cannot go within a mile of land, and passengers have to go ashore in small lighters.
• Lighters topped with hills of pit coal were going slowly to take their position along the flanks of the ships.
• Thence the blubber was sent down in lighters to Whaling Bight, to be tryed out.
• There are records of lighters of 500 and even 800 tons capacity! These are dimensions unheard of in the West in those times.
• Mumblazen might have said, by the masts of two lighters that lay waiting for the tide.
• With the vessels referred to it is said that a dozen harbor tugs, three or four lighters, a few small steamers, and about a dozen small sloops and schooners have been associated.
• Captain McGregor reported a prosperous voyage, and the next day the discharging of cargo into lighters began and was rushed with all speed.
• We began to cross the river in two lighters, with some small boats, about ten at night.
• After a fierce fire from these ships, the landing was effected with loss of two men of our regiment, who were doubtless crushed to death between the lighters.
• All the ships had to stand about a mile off-shore and discharge their cargoes into lighters and smaller craft.
• When the Virginia was ready to sail, all the soldiers were transferred off to her in lighters.
• Seeing that the cargo was about completed and that it would only take a few more lighters to fill her, Paul determined to leave that night.
• They quietly enjoyed the scenes below and watched the lighters as they carried out the last of the cargo.
• The steamer lay in the middle of the river while discharging her cargo into lighters and the passengers took advantage of the wait for a trip across into the city.
• If the Admiralty will improvise and send us out post haste 20 to 30 large lighters difficulty and duration of this phase will be cut down to at least one half.
• The lighters should each be capable of conveying 400 to 500 men or 30 to 40 horses.
• Went ashore in the afternoon and saw big landing by Australians, who took mules and donkeys with them and got them in and out of lighters.
• Certainly, the volcanic caves supplied sulphur that the natives knew how to use as match lighters.
• Before the break of day their discharged cargo would be in the lighters and they would be steaming southward for the Straits of Messina.
• Out in the roads lay seven large freight steamers whose cargoes of horses and baggage, belonging to the 2d Florida Cavalry Regiment, were being transferred to lighters.
• Having no vent for the convicts that used to be transported to our late colonies, a plan was adopted for confining them on board of lighters for the term of their sentences.
• When he was twelve years old, his father took a contract for getting the cargo out of a vessel stranded near Sandy Hook, and transporting it to New York in lighters.
• Cornelius, with a little fleet of lighters, three wagons, their horses and drivers, started from home solely charged with the management of this difficult affair.
• Vessels in the roads can have it brought off in bulk in lighters or schooners at a cost of 50 cents a ton.
• Then, farther down, against the other bank, were lighters, laden with coals, and barges full of mill stone, dominated as it were by the gigantic arm of a steam crane.
• Nicolas, with its crane, its lighters which are being unloaded, and its crowd of labourers.
• It was urged that the heaviest laden of the three lighters should tow astern of the others.
• She was brought head on to the sea, and the wind having risen, a nasty swell came with it, which caused the lighters to jump and put jerky strains on their moorings.

Similar words containing LIGHTER without suffix s

lighter11 blighter14 plighter14 slighter12 blighters15 delighter14 lightered14 plighters15 slighters13 uplighter15 delighters15 lighterage15 lightering15 lighterman16 lightermen16 uplighters16 downlighter19 firelighter18 highlighter22 lamplighter19 lighterages16 limelighter17 moonlighter17 downlighters20 firelighters19 highlighters23 lamplighters20 limelighters18 moonlighters18 candlelighter20 candlelighters21

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