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Carcel lamp   Listen
noun
Carcel lamp  n.  A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.






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"Carcel lamp" Quotes from Famous Books



... light in Simon's room as I entered my house. A vague impulse urged me to visit him. As I opened the door of his sitting-room unannounced, he was bending, with his back toward me, over a Carcel lamp, apparently engaged in minutely examining some object which he held in his hands. As I entered, he started suddenly, thrust his hand into his breast pocket, and turned to me with a face ...
— The Diamond Lens • Fitz-James O'brien



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