daylighting

Verb

daylight (third-person singular simple present daylights, present participle daylighting, simple past and past participle daylighted or daylit)

1. To expose to daylight
   • […] the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 7”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC
2. To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
3. To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
4. (landscaping) To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
5. (intransitive) To gain exposure to the open.
   • The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
6. (intransitive) To moonlight (work a second, often illicit job) during the daytime.
   • But I find that we have a large number of service wives who are daylighting. Some of them are not only working in the evening, but also during the day.1965, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Military Pay Increase: Hearings..., page 81

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