Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a lamp, an inflecting ring on the burner, curved inward and serving to condense the flame.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp.
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