- lighter⇄lighter (1), noun.
1. a thing used to set something else on fire, such as the various devices for lighting cigarettes.
2. a person who lights or kindles. - lighter⇄lighter (2), noun, verb.
- lighter⇄noun a flat-bottomed barge used for loading and unloading ships, usually offshore, or for carrying cargo over a short route.
- lighter⇄v.t. to carry (goods) in a flat-bottomed barge.
Ex. All day long the surfboats move back and forth between the shore and the freightersat anchor, lightering cargo (New Yorker).