deadlight

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A strong (often wooden) shutter fitted over a porthole, that can be closed in bad weather to keep water out and discourage the glass windows from breaking.
  2. A deck prism, a device to allow light into the cabin of boat through the deck.
  3. An eye. archaic,figuratively
    — Here you comes and tells me of it plain; and here I let him give us all the slip before my blessed deadlights!
  4. An eyelid. archaic,figuratively
    — He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.

词形变化

deadlights plural dead-light alternative dead light alternative

词源

From dead + light.
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