lighterman

Noun

 * 1)  One employed on, owning, or managing a lighter.
 * 2) * 1622,, , The First Antimasque, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: D. Midwinter et al., 1756, Volume 6, p. 122,
 * A poor lighterman, sir, one that hath had the honour sometimes to lay in the king’s beer there