glim
Americannoun
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a light or lamp.
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Scot. a little bit; small portion; scrap.
noun
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a light or lamp
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an eye
Etymology
Origin of glim
Example Sentences
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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
But douse the glim there; we shan’t want it, and it might give the alarm.”
From Eric, or Little by Little by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
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
"Douse your glim, mate; we'll be having them Zeppelins all over us."
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 by Various
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