lamplighter

One that lights lamps, especially a person hired to light and extinguish gaslit streetlights.

A person employed to light street-lamps.

Apiece of paper rolled into a spill, used to light lamps.

A torch used for lighting gas-lamps.

The bass (fish).

One who, or that which, lights a lamp

The calico bass.

A device used to light lamps.

A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn. An obsolete occupation since lights are now electric, most likely seen in the works of such authors as Charles Dickens, often appearing as a symbolic light-bringing figure.

(when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights