bug light


noun
  1. a yellow light bulb, used mainly outdoors, that does not attract insects.

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How to use bug light in a sentence

  • And yonder is Spit or bug light; it is only thirty-five feet high, and stands upon iron pillars fixed in the rock.

  • At half-past nine in the forenoon the cutter swept past bug light and into the inner harbor.

  • Instead, he went out to the Bay and stood looking across the water toward the bug-light.

    In Her Own Right | John Reed Scott
  • Boston Harbor, as far out as the bug light, even to-day, is said to be carpeted with tea-grounds.

  • I am sure I shall never forget how many steps there are leading to the bug light.

    Flint | Maud Wilder Goodwin