lightmans en · NOUN
Etymology
From light + -mans.
Meanings
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(UK, obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant, uncountable) The day.
And then to the Trin'de on the chutes, in the lightmans / The Bube & Ruffian cly the Harman beck & harmans.
1612, Thomas Dekker, Lanthorne and Candle-light:Mr. Kestrel's out to dinner with some of his pals, and he 'most never comes home till lightmans.
2012, Kate Ross, A Broken Vessel:Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?
1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman: