lamplighter

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lamp=light=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

lamplighter, n. 

•  One who, or that which, lights a lamp;  [1913 Webster]

  "He made the night a little brighter
  Wherever he did go,
  The old lamplighter
  Of long, long ago."  [PJC]
•  The calico bass.  [1913 Webster]
•  A device used to light lamps.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lamplighter, n.
1 hist. a person who lights street lamps.
2 US a spill for lighting lamps.

Idiom

like a lamplighter with great speed.