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gas light

gas light is the alternative form of gaslight.

Meaning of gaslight

Noun

gaslight (countable and uncountable, plural gaslights)

  1. (historical) A lamp which operates by burning piped illuminating gas (or town gas).
    • He was renovated and refreshed, his soul was strengthened, and his countenance waxed cheerful, and he began to feel like himself again, under the brown canopy of metropolitan smoke, and among the cabs and gaslights.[1871], J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Captain Lake Looks in at Nightfall”, in Wylder’s Hand: […] (Select Library of Fiction; 178), new edition, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 118
    Synonyms:
    gas lamp
  2. (historical, uncountable) The light produced by the burning gas in such a lamp.
    • A year since I strained my eyes very severely, and have never dared to use them much since by gaslight.1887, Horatio Alger, Jr., “An Unexpected Engagement”, in Frank Fowler, the Cash Boy (The Alger Series for Boys), New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt, →OCLC, page 86

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Forms of gas light

pluralgas lights

Questions about gas light

What is gas light the alternative form of?
Gas light is the alternative form of gaslight.

Words near gas light in the dictionary

  1. gas jockeys
  2. gas lamp
  3. gas lamps
  4. gas law
  5. gas laws
  6. gas light
  7. gas lighter
  8. gas lighters
  9. gas lighting
  10. gas lightings
  11. gas lights

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