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glow-lamps

glow-lamps is the plural of glow-lamp.

Meaning of glow-lamp

Noun

glow-lamp (plural glow-lamps)

  1. (archaic) A light bulb.
    • 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.1883, Charles Ammi Cutter, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Questions about glow-lamps

What is glow-lamps the plural of?
Glow-lamps is the plural of glow-lamp.

Words near glow-lamps in the dictionary

  1. glow-down
  2. glow-downs
  3. glow-faggot
  4. glow-in-the-dark
  5. glow-lamp
  6. glow-lamps
  7. glow-nigger
  8. glow-niggers
  9. glow-up
  10. glow-ups
  11. glow-worm

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