Very light

British  

/ ˈvɛrɪ /

noun

1. a coloured flare fired from a special pistol ( Very pistol ) for signalling at night, esp at sea

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Etymology

Origin of Very light

C19: named after Edward W. Very (1852–1910), US naval ordnance officer

Example Sentences

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Very light

"They let each other down, too, in the room. There were some guys who were very light on the puck. Very light."

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2018

Prufrock was soon followed by other poems, each one lighting up the postwar literary battlefields like a Very light high above the trenches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Very light coloured cloths for morning wear are to be avoided, even in the height of summer; and fancy cloths of strange patterns and mixtures are exceedingly objectionable.

From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by George Routledge

Very light labour would enable the Tahitians to roll in riches, at least according to their own estimate of the value of money and of the luxuries it procures.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

Very light brown, flaxen, or red, rather long, straight or wavy, smooth and glossy.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon