The Collaborative International Dictionary
jacklight \jacklight\ n. A portable source of light, as an oil lantern or electric light, used as a lure for hunting at night.
Syn: jack.
jacklight \jacklight\ v. t. to fish for or hunt with a jacklight.
Syn: jack.
WordNet
n. a light used as lure in hunting or fishing at night
v. hunt with a jacklight [syn: jack]
Wikipedia
Jacklight is a 1984 poetry collection by Louise Erdrich. The collection grew from poems Erdrich wrote for her 1979 Master of Arts thesis at Johns Hopkins University.
Usage examples of "jacklight".
The hit men could jacklight him and shoot him down the moment he moved.
The jacklight swinging above her head glowed like a second moon against the black sky.
Some of the prisoners had the strained look of animals caught in jacklight, trying to be invisible: the others were restless in small, compulsive movements that made Jackal hiss with irritation.
The pitiless glare of the jacklights attached to both canoes lit his bowed head and slumped shoulders.
So they jacklighted and dodged the game wardens through the tangled bayou that Avery knew better than anyone else.
Avery, suddenly cold sober but no more able to move than a jacklighted deer, stood there and pissed himself, then felt all over his body for bullet holes, then fell to his knees and began to pray as three of his brothers worked Hebert over with pool cues and boots, and the rest of the patrons of the Gables stood around and watched, the general feeling being that Hebert was getting no more than he deserved.
Lucien Antitoi, whose chin has caved and lips are quivering, though his eyes are not what you would call jacklighted or terrified eyes.
They would bring the train to a halt, leaving me jacklighted in front of it like a trapped deer, waiting for the arrival of the Transit Authority Police.
It was Avery who always found the time to take the kids out in the middle of the night frog-gigging or jacklighting deer.