miner's lamp
Example Sentences
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Each Dynamo player was presented with a commemorative miner's lamp, one of which remains on display in the Moscow club's museum.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2020
He later recalled using a coal miner’s lamp to keep working after dark.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2020
He gave me one to put on; it looked like a dorky version of a miner’s lamp.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
News accounts also reported that an open miner’s lamp may have touched off a small gas explosion, which then ignited a larger coal-dust blast.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2015
I couldn’t find any replacement batteries, so I flung the flashlight aside and put my miner’s lamp on my head, made sure it worked, then switched it off to conserve the batteries.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
