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Definition of Rear lamp

1. Noun. Lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rear Lamp

Literary usage of Rear lamp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"If the rear lamp should burn out. the instrument lamp would not burn and vice versa. This is an advantage, because the law requires that rear light burn ..."

2. The Horseless Age (1909)
"108, had a smashed rear light and the Pierce, No. g, had also a broken rear lamp. In addition Xo. 8 did not carry his lamp on the bracket for several days ..."

3. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1915)
"The rays of I such] the rear lamp on any motor vehicle shall shine upon the number plate carried on the rear of such vehicle in such manner as to render the ..."

4. The Law of Motor Vehicles by Berkeley Reynolds Davids (1911)
"The white rays of such rear lamp shall shine upon the number plate carried on the rear of such vehicle. The light of the front lamps shall be visible at ..."

5. Motors and Motor-driving by Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (1906)
"... rear lamp is not in respect of its red light, but in its capacity of showing up by a white light the figures on the number-plate. ..."

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