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词汇 oil-lamp
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oil lamp

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meanings of oiland lamp


These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings.
oil
noun
uk /ɔɪl/ us /ɔɪl/
petroleum (= the black oil obtained from under the earth's surface from which ...
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lamp
noun[ C ]
uk /læmp/ us /læmp/
a device for giving light, especially one that has a covering or is contained ...
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Examples of oil lamp


oil lamp
A binnacle may be subdivided into sections and its contents typically include one or more compasses and an oillamp or other light source.
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The oillamp glows continuously in the sanctuary in front of the tabernacle.
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In the 1850s the light was provided from a burning wick in a whale oillamp.
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In 1954 the oillamp was replaced with an electric one powered by a local diesel generator.
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An oillamp had exploded and the room caught fire.
For most of the time he had no light at all, and then he had an oillamp.
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We have to have an oillamp to so many electric lamps at the face.
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The boys who have gone into the mines in the last 10 years would never recognise the firedamp cap on the safety oillamp.
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When we build our houses in country districts, can we wait for electricity; can we go back to the oillamp stage?
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I witnessed in the cottages the great transition from the oillamp and candle to the electric bulb.
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Why should people in the old house have to use an oillamp while the new house is provided with electric lighting?
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We may remember that 30 years ago even a motor car carried an oillamp that often went out in a gust of wind.
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In other cases, a new type of oillamp with duplex burner giving a candle power greatly in excess of the hurricane lamp is to be supplied.
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But in a colliery, in darkness, where one depends on the faint glimmer and flicker of an electric lamp or an oillamp, one cannot use the language of signs.
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The number of electric lamps has grown in the proportion of two electric lamps to one oillamp, and the lighting of the mines has consequently been very much improved.
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