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

Dick leaned out of his cockpit and fired a single red Very light, the signal for the attack.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various

Very light was Frank's step when he carried the reapers their dinner.

From Frank and Fanny by Moore, Bloomfield H., Mrs. (Clara Jessup)

When a Very light goes up, he lies still.

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby