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time lamp

time lamp noun: an oil lamp from the 17th and 18th centuries, that burned at a fixed rate and consisted of a reservoir marked in units of time.

Noun

time lamp

  1. (historical, obsolete) An oil lamp from the 17th and 18th centuries, that burned at a fixed rate and consisted of a reservoir marked in units of time.

Questions about time lamp

What does time lamp mean?
Time lamp means an oil lamp from the 17th and 18th centuries, that burned at a fixed rate and consisted of a reservoir marked in units of time.
What part of speech is time lamp?
Time lamp is a noun.

Words near time lamp in the dictionary

  1. time killer
  2. time killers
  3. time lady
  4. time lag
  5. time lags
  6. time lamp
  7. time lapse
  8. time lapses
  9. time letter of credit
  10. time limit
  11. time limits

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