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

"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

The aeroplane flies at any convenient height and when it is exactly above the target it fires a Very light.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

When a Very light goes up, he lies still.

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby

Very light hair may be improved by a slight tint of brown, or yellow and brown, according to the color.

From American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight)