A portable oil or paraffin lamp in which air pressure is used to supply the burner with fuel.
Example sentencesExamples
- I am often walking long ways over dangerous ground, so I need my hands free; for that reason I never use a tilley lamp and instead rely on a good quality headlamp.
- We had a little pavilion that we painted ourselves with a tilly lamp inside and a primus stove.
- We used tilly lamps for light and had to transport oil and other fuel to the house.
- A headlamp is essential for night sessions, for I do not like tilley lamps one bit on rocks.
- Sometimes the lights would go, and when they did we'd reach for the tilly lamps.