glim

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I'll douse the glim and let 'em stay.

From Isle o' Dreams by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

There, you infarnal beast, you’ve yawed sharp up into this ere bush, and put my starboard glim out forever!

From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

First of all, I'll light our little glim here; for if we're going to poke along into that black hole, I reckon we'll be wanting some sort of light to see by.

From The Boy Scouts in the Rockies or the Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine by Carter, Herbert