Glow-lamp

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A light bulb. archaic

    "In the night, or in a dark day the runner, on going in, touches a knob, which lights an electric glow-lamp in the middle; that shows him his way."

Synonyms

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light bulb

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"In the night, or in a dark day the runner, on going in, touches a knob, which lights an electric glow-lamp in the middle; that shows him his way."

Etymology

Dutch gloeilamp, Swedish glödlampa

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