LANTERN
NOUNS
► ABSCONCE a dark lantern used in monasteries and at lauds and matins in the Roman Catholic church → 1888 (Bk.)
► BIRD CAGE a lantern used in signalling by railway brakemen and switchmen → 1975 US railroad usage (Bk.)
► BOWET a hand-lantern → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUG a low-intensity lamp used as a lantern or flashlight → 1918 Amer. dial.
► BUG-LAMP a low-intensity lamp used as a lantern or flashlight → c1849 Amer. dial.
► BUG-LANTERN a low-intensity lamp used as a lantern or flashlight → 1924 Amer. dial.
► BUG–LIGHT a low-intensity lamp used as a lantern or flashlight → 1947 Amer. dial.
► BUG–TORCH a low-intensity lamp used as a lantern or flashlight → 1932 Amer. dial.
► DARKEE ► DARKEY ► DARKY a ‘dark’ lantern, i.e. a shuttered lantern → 19C sl.
► DARKMANS a covered ‘dark’ lantern → E19 UK criminals’ sl.
► FANAL a ship’s lantern → 1632 obs.
► GLAZE a lantern → E19 sl.
► GUY a dark lantern → E19 sl.
► HAYBURNER a kerosene lantern → 1930 Amer. railroad sl.
► JOBBER’S SUN a source of nighttime illumination allowing longer hours to be worked; the moon or a kerosene lantern → 1905 Amer. logging usage
► LANTERN-LIGHT the glass panes of a lantern → 1848 Eng. dial.
► LANTRUN a lantern → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LUCERNE a lamp, lantern → c1450 obs.
► PALOUSE a makeshift lantern made by attaching a bale, horizontally, to an empty can and by inserting a candle through a hole in the side → 1923 Amer. dial.
► PALOUSER a makeshift lantern made by attaching a bale, horizontally, to an empty can and by inserting a candle through a hole in the side → 1918 Amer. dial.
VERBS
► STOW THE GUY to cover or douse the lantern → E19 sl.
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