hurricane lamp
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I glanced around at the iron and bark walls decorated with spears and ochred totem-sticks, at the bare floor of hard earth, at the hurricane lamp dimly glowing upon rough, bush-made furniture."
- "Most of the stock is third class, with wooden seats; many broken windows have been boarded up, and a number of the coaches are lighted by hurricane lamps."
- "She heard people, and saw light - light at last, and such a bright one! A hurricane lamp was bobbing towards her, and a woman’s voice, with a nervous edge to it, called, “Who’s that?”"
- "Patrick had risen early. As he lit the hurricane lamp he watched as it threw a wash of soft light through the window, illuminating the handrail on the porch beyond which nothing was visible."