student lamp

American  

noun

1. a table lamp whose light source can be adjusted in height.

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Etymology

Origin of student lamp

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

Associate Justice Brandeis refused to accept one. plunked down in front of him a battered, goose-necked student lamp of his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

When dinner was over Mary Louise went into the library and, drawing a chair to where the light of the student lamp flooded her book, tried to read.

From Mary Louise by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

The student lamp was lighted, and new fuel added to the grate.

From Marguerite Verne by Armour, Rebecca Agatha

In that old ivied manse exists A scholar, wrinkled, bent, and gray, His student lamp gleams through the mists And twinkles on till break of day.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

Then she locked her door, got out her pen and her blank book, lit the student lamp, and sat down at her table.

From Cinderella Jane by Cooke, Marjorie Benton