hurricane lamp
hurricane lamp noun: a kerosene lantern.
Noun
hurricane lamp (plural hurricane lamps)
- A kerosene lantern.
- I glanced around at the iron and bark walls decorated with spears and ochred totem-sticks, at the bare floor of hard earth, at the hurricane lamp dimly glowing upon rough, bush-made furniture.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 207
- 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.1946 July and August, “Notes and News: "Medloc" Route, Toulon to Dieppe”, in Railway Magazine, page 250
- Synonyms:
- storm lantern, hurricane lantern, tornado lamp, tornado lantern
hurricane lamp meaning in Tamil and Bengali
hurricane lamp in Tamil
- கூண்டு விளக்கு
hurricane lamp in Bengali
- hurricane lamp, storm lantern, kerosene lantern
- হারিকেন harikeno
Examples of hurricane lamp in a sentence
- A hurricane lamp was bobbing towards her, and a woman’s voice, with a nervous edge to it, called, “Who’s that?”2014, Ann Turnbull, chapter 11, in Room for a Stranger, Walker Books, page 121:
- As he lit the hurricane lamp he watched as it threw a wash of soft light through the window, illuminating the handrail on the porch beyond which nothing was visible.2011, Joe Simpson, chapter 10, in The Sound of Gravity, Jonathan Cape, page 93:
Synonyms of hurricane lamp
- storm lantern
- hurricane lantern
- tornado lamp
- tornado lantern
Forms of hurricane lamp
| plural | hurricane lamps |
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Questions about hurricane lamp
- What does hurricane lamp mean?
- Hurricane lamp means a kerosene lantern.
- What is hurricane lamp in Tamil?
- Hurricane lamp in Tamil is கூண்டு விளக்கு. See Hurricane lamp meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use hurricane lamp in a sentence?
- A hurricane lamp was bobbing towards her, and a woman’s voice, with a nervous edge to it, called, “Who’s that?”
- What part of speech is hurricane lamp?
- Hurricane lamp is a noun.
- What is the plural of hurricane lamp?
- The plural of hurricane lamp is hurricane lamps.
Words near hurricane lamp in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hurricane lamp (page history and authors); hurricane lamp (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); হারিকেন (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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