glim

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The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim.

From Time Magazine Archive

Summoned by a flood of protests, Vatican City firemen broke open the door, doused the gleaming glim.

From Time Magazine Archive

When two substantives of a different signification meet together, the latter is put in the genitive case, as Ulysses lumen Cyclopis extinxit: Ulysses doused the glim of the Cyclops.

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John

I can open it if you’ll hold this blessed glim still.

From The Dark House A Knot Unravelled by Fenn, George Manville

We goes up to the second floor and turns on the glim in the front office.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell