OIL LAMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oil lamp mean? 

• OIL LAMP (noun)
  The noun OIL LAMP has 1 sense:

1. a lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light

  Familiarity information: OIL LAMP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OIL LAMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

kerosene lamp; kerosine lamp; oil lamp

Hypernyms ("oil lamp" is a kind of...):

lamp (an artificial source of visible illumination)

Meronyms (parts of "oil lamp"):

chimney; lamp chimney (a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp)

taper; wick (a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oil lamp"):

Davy lamp; safety lamp (an oil lamp that will not ignite flammable gases (methane))

 Context examples 

All this is visible to you by the light of an oil lamp hanging from the ceiling, and by that of an excellent fire, near which I sit in my cloak and bonnet; my muff and umbrella lie on the table, and I am warming away the numbness and chill contracted by sixteen hours' exposure to the rawness of an October day: I left Lowton at four o'clock a.m., and the Millcote town clock is now just striking eight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An occasional oil lamp at the corner of a street, or in the portico of some wealthy burgher, threw a faint glimmer over the shining cobblestones, and the varied motley crowd who, in spite of the weather, ebbed and flowed along every highway.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)