lamplighter
Dusk rounds worker
A lamplighter was a person employed to light and extinguish gas streetlamps, walking a route at dusk and dawn with a long pole.
The occupation disappeared with electric lighting but survives in figurative use for anyone who brings illumination or leads the way: She was a lamplighter for the civil rights movement.
Portable climbing frame
- wickFuel-drawing cord
- oilSlippery viscous fluid
- torchHandheld burning light source
- matchstickFriction-lit fire starter
taper · snuffer · flint · tinderbox · pole · hook · flame · igniter
Start a blaze
- igniteStart burning something
- glowSteady, soft light
- flickerUnsteady, brief light
- flameBurning gas made visible
gaslight · streetlight · beacon · warmth · brightness · nightfall · shadows · twilight
Of a prim era
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
- cobblestoneRiver-smoothed paving stone
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
- 19th-centuryThe eighteen hundreds
fog · London · street corner · mantle · gas jet · Stevenson · nostalgia · old-fashioned
Carrier of a cause
- watchmanBuilding security guard
- nightwatchmanOvernight security guard
- municipalOf city government
- patrolRegular surveillance route
rounds · ladder · pole · snuffer · maintainer · civil servant · uniform · route
One who informs
- guideLeader or instruction book
- inspirerOne who stirs others
- beaconGuiding light source
- torchbearerCarrier of a cause
pioneer · trailblazer · illuminator · teacher · mentor · spark · awakener · luminary
ladder
Portable climbing frame
matchstick · taper · snuffer · flint · tinderbox · pole · hook · flame · igniter · canister
kindle
Start a blaze
flame · gaslight · streetlight · beacon · warmth · brightness · nightfall · shadows · twilight · amber glow
Victorian
Of a prim era
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
- cobblestoneRiver-smoothed paving stone
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
19th-century · fog · London · street corner · mantle · gas jet · Stevenson · nostalgia · old-fashioned · quaint
torchbearer
Carrier of a cause
- watchmanBuilding security guard
- nightwatchmanOvernight security guard
- municipalOf city government
patrol · rounds · ladder · pole · snuffer · maintainer · civil servant · uniform · route · public service
enlightener
One who informs
torchbearer · pioneer · trailblazer · illuminator · teacher · mentor · spark · awakener · luminary
- occupationsdoctor, teacher, baker, lawyer, nurse
- Victorianaseances, Dickens, spiritualism, Sherlock Holmes, phrenology
- Old Jobsblacksmith, farrier, wheelwright, chandler, apothecary
- old occupationsblacksmith, carpenter, miller, farmer, shepherd
- Old-timey wordsicebox, gramophone, phonograph, horseless carriage, aeroplane
- gas lightinggas lantern, gaslight, gas jet, gas burner, gas flame