1877 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1875–6 442 (table) Superheavy..heavy... Superlight..light.

1909 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 14 July 4/1 (advt.) Office Coats..made of super-light silk fabrics.

1952 G. B. Orbell Comfort & Common Sense in Bush 8 This [sc. a fly camp] is the camp that needs to be of super-light equipment to go on your back to the high tops.

1997 J. Wilson Coarse Fishing Method Man. (1998) 180/3 I see little point in forking out a fortune on a superlight, state-of-the-art carbon-fibre rod, only to load it up with an outsize and overweight fixed-spool reel.

2010 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 27/1 Fly-by-wire technology..and new superstrong, superlight materials have solved many of those challenges.

1929 Sci. Monthly Aug. 111/1 Not the first instance of the appearance of a ‘super-light velocity’ of wave propagation in theoretical physics.

1961 G. Gamow One, Two, Three… Infinity v. 102 A superlight velocity should turn the time backward!

1987 Nature 8 Oct. 519/1 The apparent superlight expansion of these nebulosities.

2005 M. Kaku Parallel Worlds xi. 336 The starship would travel between these stations at super light speed according to a timetable, with fixed departures and arrivals.