A man who carries or takes care of a light.
1. A gridiron. [They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat. Cotton. 2. That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc. 1. To broil on a grill or gridiron. Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons. Marvell. 2. To torment, as if by broiling. Dickens.