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8 nautical terms (boats, equipment, etc.)

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A barge used to load or unload things from a ship like a collier.

Daniel Pool. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. (1993)
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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.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Searle says he will moor the lighter at the head of that disused creek halfway up Kerrith harbor. It drives out very easily.

Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca (1938)
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“That is Jacobson’s Yard,” said Holmes, pointing to a bristle of masts and rigging on the Surrey side. “Cruise gently up and down here under cover of this string of lighters.”

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four (1890)
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On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flank'd on each side by the barges, the hay-boat, the belated lighter,

Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass (1892)
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"Sailormen ain't wot you might call dandyfied as a rule," said the night-watchman, who had just had a passage of arms with a lighterman and been advised to let somebody else wash him and make a good job of it; "they've got too much sense. They leave dressing up and making eyesores of theirselves to men wot 'ave never smelt salt water; men wot drift up and down the river in lighters and get in everybody's way."

W. W. Jacobs. Sailors' Knots. (1909)
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pumps going in leaky ships, capstans going, ships going out to sea, and unintelligible sea-creatures roaring curses over the bulwarks at respondent lightermen, in and out,—out at last upon the clearer river, where the ships' boys might take their fenders in, no longer fishing in troubled waters with them over the side, and where the festooned sails might fly out to the wind.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there.

Victor Hugo. Les Misérables
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who know all the captains, all the engineers, all the lightermen, all the pilots, all the licensed watermen, and all the unlicensed scoundrels from the Tower to Gravesend, and a lot further.

Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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