hurricane lamp

English

Noun

hurricane lamp (plural hurricane lamps)

A kerosene lantern.
Synonym: storm lantern
- 1946 July and August, “Notes and News: "Medloc" Route, Toulon to Dieppe”, in Railway Magazine, page 250:
  Most of the stock is third class, with wooden seats; many broken windows have been boarded up, and a number of the coaches are lighted by hurricane lamps.

Translations

kerosene lantern

Irish: laindéar doininne m

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