Lighters [noun]

At the pier at "W" were several big lighters filled with wounded who were about to be towed out to Hospital ships.

I went into Melbourne at once, secured buildings for our cargo, and arranged for lighters to take it up the Yarra-Yarra.

A tug and a couple of lighters were stuck against her icy sides, and, like leeches, were sucking from her what they could.

Hope almost failed to reassure him as he gazed first at the departing lighters and then at the ice-panoplied hulk on Razee.

Will you take fifteen hundred dollars—cash—now—for that wreck, as you leave her when you've loaded those lighters?

There were no docks or jetties, and all loading and unloading had to be done over the side into lighters and country boats.

A few lighters also come down the stream with bricks and produce from the interior, and are towed to the islands.

A third company essays the task: the lighters are filled with dead and wounded.

The lighters are placed in position so as to form a bridge between the gangway and the rock.

The swirling current drove the lighters adrift, and the bridge was broken.