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Spirit lamp   /spˈɪrət læmp/   Listen
Spirit lamp

noun
1.
A lamp that burns a volatile liquid fuel such as alcohol.





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"Spirit lamp" Quotes from Famous Books



... morning he went through his usual programme. He arose soon after eight, lighted his little spirit lamp, made his coffee, cut some bread and butter, and breakfasted. Then he lit a cigarette and sat down at his desk. His imagination, however, seemed to have burnt itself out in the night. Ideas and phrases were denied to him. He was thankful, about eleven ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... at the fair, and Peter and Thomas and Francesco and Suor Clara (the donkey) establishing themselves on the shore by the edge of the waveless sea. There Peter got out of the cart a tea-caddy and a spirit lamp and made tea (he was always rather unhappy if he missed his tea) and ate biscuits, and gave Thomas—now an interested and cheerful person of a year and a half old—milk and sopped biscuit, and produced a bone for Francesco and carrots for Clara, and ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay


Words linked to "Spirit lamp" :   lamp


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