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English
Etymology
From dead + light.
Noun
deadlight (plural deadlights)
- (nautical) 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.
- (nautical) A deck prism, a device to allow light into the cabin of boat through the deck.
- (figurative, archaic) An eye.
- (figurative, archaic) An eyelid.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC: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.
- (architecture) Synonym of deadlite