[f. LIGHTER sb.1] trans. To remove or transport (goods) in a lighter, or as in a lighter. Also absol. or intr.
1840. Evid. Hull Docks Comm., 212. Whenever you lighter goods from this new contemplated dock.
1861. Smiles, Engineers, II. 195. Their cargoes were lightered to the warehouses higher up the Thames.
1885. F. Schwatka, in Century Mag., XXX. 739/2. Our effects of some three or four tons were lightered ashore by means of the Indian canoes.
1885. Law Times, LXXIX. 143/2. A standing agreement … that he should not lighter as a common carrier.
Hence Lightering vbl. sb.
1840. Evid. Hull Docks Comm., 18. Would not that very considerably increase the expense of your lightering?
1858. T. Dalton, in Merc. Marine Mag., V. 337. The lightering to ships in the roads is done … by American … brigs.
