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

Curfew And p’raps it’s just as well to tell He introduced the Curfew Bell; So at the early hour of eight Each doused his glim, raked out his grate.

From A Humorous History of England by Harrison, Charles

But douse the glim there; we shan’t want it, and it might give the alarm.”

From Eric, or Little by Little by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

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 King, Charles