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Definition of Oil lamp
1. Noun. A lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light.
Generic synonyms: Lamp
Terms within: Chimney, Lamp Chimney, Taper, Wick
Specialized synonyms: Davy Lamp, Safety Lamp
Definition of Oil lamp
1. Noun. a simple vessel used to produce light continuously for a period of time from a liquid fuel source ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oil Lamp
Literary usage of Oil lamp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The dangers of the mineral oil lamp, which were a grave draw- tack in the past,
have been very much reduced by improvements in construction and quality, ..."
2. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1904)
"What was known as the lard-oil lamp was introduced about 1760. ... An inventor
secured a patent on a lard-oil lamp in 1818 which introduced what was known ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1916)
"The illumination produced by the oil lamp has an intensity of about 2.5 cp. ...
In the case of the oil lamp, with oil at 45 c. per gallon, assuming that the ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1851)
"... on account of the extreme inflammability of the liquid; an inflammability such
that the arrangements for an oil-lamp would not be available for a ..."
5. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1870)
"It is, of course, desirable, also, that these conditions should assimilate as
much as possible to those obtaining in a paraffin-oil lamp when it is burning, ..."
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