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lantern
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic) lanthorn
Etymology
Middle English lanterne (13th century), via Old French lanterne from Latin lanterna (“lantern”), itself a corruption of Ancient Greek ??????? (lampt?r, “torch”) (see lamp, ????? (lámp?)) by influence of Latin lucerna (“lamp”). The spelling lanthorn was current during the 16th to 19th centuries and originates with a folk etymology associating the word with the use of horn as translucent cover. For the verb, compare French lanterner to hang at the lamppost.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?læn.t?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?læn.t?n/
Noun
lantern (plural lanterns)
- A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
- (theater) Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
- (architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 1:
- On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting here—as here he is—with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 1:
- (architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
- (architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
- the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral
- (engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
- (steam engines) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
- (rail transport) A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.
- (metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
- (zoology) Aristotle's lantern
Descendants
- ? Irish: laindéar
- ? Hindi: ?????? (l?l?en)
- ? Malay: lentera
- Indonesian: lentera
- ? Telugu: ?????? (l?ntaru)
Derived terms
- lantern slide
- magic lantern
Translations
Verb
lantern (third-person singular simple present lanterns, present participle lanterning, simple past and past participle lanterned)
- (transitive) To furnish with a lantern.
- to lantern a lighthouse
See also
- lamp
- torch
Anagrams
- trannel
Middle English
Noun
lantern
- Alternative form of lanterne
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cresset
English
Etymology
From Old French crasset, cresset (“sort of lamp or torch”); perhaps of Old Dutch or Old High German origin, and akin to English cruse, French creuset (“crucible”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??s?t/
Noun
cresset (plural cressets)
- A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination.
- 1835, William Wordsworth, Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off St. Bees' Head, on the coast of Cumberland
- As a cresset true that darts its length / Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength.
- 1835, William Wordsworth, Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off St. Bees' Head, on the coast of Cumberland
- (coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
- 1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII
- We reach'd the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we mark'd uphung / two cressets and another saw from far
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- 1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII
Translations
See also
- brazier
Anagrams
- Secrest, resects, secrets
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