glim

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

A brother-farmer—neighbor, once, to me— Who's down here, like myself, to hear and see, Told me, last night, before we "doused the glim," How a young wheel-chap got the start of him.

From City Ballads by Carleton, Will

"Douse your glim, mate; we'll be having them Zeppelins all over us."

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 by Various

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