英语词汇“slush lamp”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

slush lamp

noun Australian /NZ dated

An improvised light made from a container of fat and a wick: he read Wild West stories by the light of a slush lamp...

The summer night was moonless and dark, the mosquitoes were bad, and Sandy pricked up his slush-lamp, covered up his fire, and retired under the mosquito-net.
He looked round the bare quarters in which he was to suffer lonely confinement, lit by a dim glimmer of light from a swaying slush lamp.
His blue eyes twinkled with suppressed mirth and his chestnut hair glistened in the flickering light of the spluttering slush lamp.

Mid 19th century: from slush in the nautical sense 'fat or grease obtained from meat boiled on board ship'.

单词	slush lamp
释义	slush lamp noun Australian /NZ dated An improvised light made from a container of fat and a wick: he read Wild West stories by the light of a slush lamp... The summer night was moonless and dark, the mosquitoes were bad, and Sandy pricked up his slush-lamp, covered up his fire, and retired under the mosquito-net. He looked round the bare quarters in which he was to suffer lonely confinement, lit by a dim glimmer of light from a swaying slush lamp. His blue eyes twinkled with suppressed mirth and his chestnut hair glistened in the flickering light of the spluttering slush lamp. Origin Mid 19th century: from slush in the nautical sense 'fat or grease obtained from meat boiled on board ship'.
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