shoplight

Noun

shoplight (plural shoplights)

1. Any of a class of light fixtures designed mainly for workshops, traditionally (in the 20th century) in the form of a tubelight suspended on lightweight chains (usually with twin tubes of four-foot length), now often in LED versions (2020s).
   • For lighting in his new garage, he hung several rows of shoplights.
   • But the typical kitchen window does not get enough light to grow healthy tomato transplants. How, then, can you grow your own? With an ordinary shoplight. You don't even have to buy those expensive plant lights.1984, Mary G. Rundell, Texas Gardener's Guide to Growing Tomatoes, Suntex Communications, →ISBN, page 28
2. (archaic) The ambient light in a workshop, through whichever method of lighting is used to provide it, such as daylight through windows or skylights, electric lights, gaslight, etc.
   • To summarize, air is in practice proving to be a fairly cheap and most convenient transmitter of power, allowing fine sub-division and transportation to remote points with the crowning and unique quality of suffering no appreciable loss when held in storage. For intermittent service it is of great...1896, John Davis Barnett, “Pneumatic Power Applied to Workshops”, in Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, volume 10, John Lovell and Son, for the Canadian Society of Civil...