gig-lamp

noun

Either of the lamps on either side of a gig carriage; a headlamp.

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Meanings

noungig-lamp (plural gig-lamps)

plural gig-lamps

  1. archaichistoricalEither of the lamps on either side of a gig carriage; a headlamp.

    But once on the more secure purchase of the macadamised main road, their driver turned off his gig-lamps and let the passengers swell slowly into drowsy sleep as he set sail for distant Avignon.

    1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1257
  2. datedin pluralslangSpectacles.

Origin

From gig + lamp.

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