lighterman
- n someone who operates a barge
- This year Ken Collins, 21, a tireless lighterman from Bermondsey, sprinted into an early lead as they slid past Southwark Bridge and Saint Paul's.
- He is, of course, the inspiration for The Secret River 's warts-and-all emancipist, William Thornhill, who, like Wiseman, rose from the slums of Bermondsey to become a lighterman on .