单词 | bottle lamp |
释义 | > as lemmasbottle lamp bottle lamp n. a lamp or lantern made from a glass bottle; spec. (a) (chiefly Caribbean and South Asian) a home-made oil lamp consisting of a bottle half filled with kerosene and fitted with a cloth wick; (b) an electric table lamp with a base made from an empty (wine) bottle fitted with a lamp holder and shade. ΚΠ 1889 Centennial Mag. (Austral.) Feb. 500 (caption) Bottle lamps. 1914 Indian Industries & Power Oct. 86/2 The lamp came through..tests as..absolutely safe and unspillable..[and] will displace the present dangerous bottle lamp. 1926 N.Y. Herald Tribune 12 Dec. (Mag. section) 24/3 There are handsome large glass bottle lamps and pleated shades to order. 1933 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 21 Apr. 10/1 Crab Catchers with their smoky bottle lamps. 1979 Times 22 Dec. 6/7 She pushed ahead of him and switched on Snyder's bottle lamp. 2009 W. Napolitano Everything Green Wedding xiv. 172 You will need a tool that can cut a hole in the glass..to pull the electrical cord through and..a lamp shade that coordinates well with your new bottle lamp. 2011 Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 9 Feb. One of the huts was gutted to ashes when a bottle lamp toppled. < as lemmas |
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