Definitions
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- noun A wooden cover of a ship's ports (window-openings), which are used to prevent water ingress in stormy weather, and to prevent glass windows breaking.
- noun A deck prism, a device to allow light into the cabin of boat through the deck.
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Examples
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The padre, who had opened the "vicarage" dead-light about an inch to get a breath of air, was promptly spotted by an indignant Number One who said that it made the ship look like a floating gin palace.
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"Closin 'this dead-light, of course," explained Tankred.
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He leaned forward and scrubbed the dead-light for the tenth time.
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The engineer glanced through the dead-light at the reddish disk of the
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The iron hatches were closed, the dead-light covers put on, and obstructions removed from the main deck, so as to present a smooth surface only twenty-four inches above the water, unbroken, save by the turret and pilot-house.
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` We all saw her -- a spanking-looking craft with a dead-light mounted on one side. '
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"What boat is it?" inquired the latter, eagerly, throwing open the dead-light of his room and gazing out along the shore.
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The captain slammed shut the dead-light and turned moodily to his desk.
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He removed his coat and vest, closed the door and dead-light, filled and lighted his black pipe, and rolled into the berth with a seaman's sigh of contentment.
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Bigpig Monahan sneaked below and induced the steward to toss through the store-room dead-light every bottle of wine and liquor which the ship contained.
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