Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hanging lamp that can be lowered and raised on its cord.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An electric lamp, analogous to a gas drop-light, for table use.
- noun A coach-window that can be dropped in grooves in the framework of the coach, so as to be out of sight.
- noun A portable gas-burn-er, generally in the form of a lamp, connected with a chandelier or other gas-fixture by a metallic or flexible tube.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An electric or gas light suspended from the ceiling by a flexible cord or tube, allowing artificial light to be brought down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant; also, an electric light bulb in a small holder, which can be held in the hand or hung from a hook, and attached to a long electric cord, allowing light to be brought close to work in dark areas of a room.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
drop light .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead of putting the Monte up on the lift, Tommy (“Tommy the Temper,” as some of our regulars called him) kicked over a creeper and rolled under the car with a droplight.
Least Resistance 2009
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Instead of putting the Monte up on the lift, Tommy (“Tommy the Temper,” as some of our regulars called him) kicked over a creeper and rolled under the car with a droplight.
Least Resistance 2009
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Instead of putting the Monte up on the lift, Tommy (“Tommy the Temper,” as some of our regulars called him) kicked over a creeper and rolled under the car with a droplight.
Least Resistance 2009
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They sat in the library after dinner and read the evening papers together under the droplight; while the younger people went into the drawing-room near by and talked.
The Awakening 2000
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The droplight over the music and the flare of the fire leaped out of the darkness like medallions.
Kenny Leona Dalrymple
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Then the never-to-be-forgotten coterie of the brightest women of the day under the shaded droplight, in the long winter evenings!
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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Hollister stood in the middle of his room, staring at the door without seeing the door, without seeing the bulky shadow his body cast on the wall in the pale glow of a single droplight.
The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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Hinton made an attractive still life under the droplight.
Kathleen Christopher Morley 1923
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Some of the old Barrett furniture was too large for the place, but what she could use Nancy arranged with exquisite taste: fairly dancing with pleasure over the sitting room, where her chair and Bert's were in place, and the little droplight lighted on the little table.
Undertow Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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The mother and father sat beneath a hot, gas droplight in the small "library"; Mrs. Madison with an evening newspaper, her husband with "King Solomon's Mines"; and Laura, after crisply declining an urgent request from Hedrick to play, had disappeared upstairs.
The Flirt 1912
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