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
“Sure enough, they left their glim here,” said the fellow from the window.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
A light; familiarly used for the eyes.—Dowse the glim, put out the light.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
All along the brilliant façade of barracks there is sudden and simultaneous "dousing of the glim" and a rush of the cadets to their narrow nests.
From Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier by Charles King
