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SIDELIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sidelight mean?
• SIDELIGHT (noun)
The noun SIDELIGHT has 1 sense:
1. light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow
Familiarity information: SIDELIGHT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
running light; sidelight
Hypernyms ("sidelight" is a kind of...):
light; light source (any device serving as a source of illumination)
Context examples
As he spoke the gleam of the sidelights of a carriage came round the curve of the avenue.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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