Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small lighthouse, or, more commonly, the lamp or apparatus placed in such a lighthouse to give light.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.

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  • noun A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.

Etymologies

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French

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  • a beacon

    July 29, 2007