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safety lamp
noun
a miner's lamp in which the flame is protected by wire gauze to prevent the immediate ignition of explosive gases.
Origin:
1810–20
1810–20
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| safety lamp | |
| —n | |
| Also called: Davy lamp an oil-burning miner's lamp in which the flame is surrounded by a metal gauze to prevent it from igniting combustible gas | |
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Safety-lamp
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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