glim

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The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim.

From Time Magazine Archive

Summoned by a flood of protests, Vatican City firemen broke open the door, doused the gleaming glim.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mind him who will, with his great white face, Boldly I'll ride by his glim to the chase; Give him a Rowland, and loudly as ever Shout, as I show myself, "Stand and deliver!"

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Douse the glim, your colours, &c., to knock down.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Bah! who’d call that a binnacle glim, or a lamp of any kind?

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne