jacklight

[jak-lahyt]

noun

1. a portable cresset, oil-burning lantern, or electric light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night.

verb (used with object)

jacklighted, jacklit, jacklighting. 

1. to hunt or fish for with a jacklight.

verb (used without object)

jacklighted, jacklit, jacklighting. 

1. to hunt or fish with the aid of a jacklight.

Word History and Origins

Origin of jacklight¹

First recorded in 1785–95; jack ¹ + light ¹

Example Sentences

The red and white mast lights had been left on all morning; the picking light and the jacklight at the end of the net both shone dully in the early sun.

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Why, of course we can follow his trail slowly by the aid of that hunting jacklight of yours.

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Now and then one would stand and stare, his eye-balls gleaming like coals of fire; and at last came the roar of the gun, and the jacklight tumbled to the ground.

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In this fog he’d no doubt miss the man’s jacklight and twist his net up in the Islander’s prop, a long diversion from the night’s fishing.

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