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hurricane lamp en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A kerosene lantern.
   • Most of the stock is third class, with wooden seats; many broken windows have been boarded up, and a number of the coaches are lighted by hurricane lamps. 1946 July and August, “Notes and News: "Medloc" Route, Toulon to Dieppe”, in Railway Magazine, page 250:
   • She heard people, and saw light - light at last, and such a bright one! A hurricane lamp was bobbing towards her, and a woman’s voice, with a nervous edge to it, called, “Who’s that?” 2014, Ann Turnbull, chapter 11, in Room for a Stranger, Walker Books, page 121:
   • Patrick had risen early. As he lit the hurricane lamp he watched as it threw a wash of soft light through the window, illuminating the handrail on the porch beyond which nothing was visible. 2011, Joe Simpson, chapter 10, in The Sound of Gravity, Jonathan Cape, page 93:
   • I glanced around at the iron and bark walls decorated with spears and ochred totem-sticks, at the bare floor of hard earth, at the hurricane lamp dimly glowing upon rough, bush-made furniture. 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 207:

Forms

Synonyms

hurricane lantern · tornado lamp · tornado lantern · storm lantern

Translations (2)

fr lampe-tempête (kerosene lantern) · ga laindéar doininne (kerosene lantern)