hurricane lamp

English

Noun

hurricane lamp (plural hurricane lamps)

  1. A kerosene lantern.
    Synonym: storm lantern
    • 1946 July and August, “Notes and News: "Medloc" Route, Toulon to Dieppe”, in Railway Magazine, page 250:
      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.
    • 2014, Ann Turnbull, chapter 11, in Room for a Stranger, Walker Books, page 121:
      She heard people, and saw light - light at last, and such a bright one! A hurricane lamp was bobbing towards her, and a woman’s voice, with a nervous edge to it, called, “Who’s that?”
    • 2011, Joe Simpson, chapter 10, in The Sound of Gravity, Jonathan Cape, page 93:
      Patrick had risen early. 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.

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