A strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather

Usage examples of deadlight.

After that he had to lift and drag the rest of him out through the deadlight and, hanging by fingertips, work his way round, inch by inch, until it seemed possible to drop into the sea and escape hitting the screw.

Air leakage from the nose deadlight was cut to an almost bearable minimum by redesigning the assembly with great, ungainly silicone gaskets.

Only one scuttle was still uncovered by its deadlight, for, like the rest of the ship, all unnecessary openings were sealed, watertight doors clipped home in readiness for leaving harbour.

There was barely room to move, and with the deadlight screwed shut, the air which came through the deckhead vent tasted dirty and over-used.

His actions matched his words as his eyes roamed over the curved, padded wall of the closed deadlight, to the wire-cased bulb then back down to the row of handles labeled with incomprehensible Cyrillic characters.

Chuck began to loosen the wing nuts that held the deadlight sealed in place.

It was very fortunate for him indeed that the Sybarite happened to have been built for pleasure yachting, with deadlights uncommonly large for the sake of air and light, else he would have been obliged to run the risk of opening the door to the saloon and fighting his way out and up to the deck.

There were windows, circular deadlights, so fused and burned that they were as opaque as the metallic hull.

Now Jack spoilt the beauty of the great cabin by causing Mr Gray to build the equivalent of a deep wing-transom, with the corresponding knees, massive enough to withstand the recoil of his brass ninepounders, so that by removing the stern windows as though to ship deadlights, together with some of the gingerbread-work from the gallery, he could use them as chasers, firing from a higher station than the more usual gunroom ports.

Jack to Stephen some time later, when the ship could be allowed a glim behind her deadlights and the dark-lanterns were put out.

With the deadlights in place over the sweeping stern windows to protect the glass from the rising rough weather, and the only light coming from the whale-oil lamp swinging overhead, even Edward would admit it was a gloomy excuse for a bridal bower.

In the cabin, its lamp hidden from without by deadlights, he found Stephen and Bernard playing chess.

The topgallantmasts had already been struck, the hatches battened down, deadlights shipped and the boats on the booms double-griped.

Killick removed the deadlights from the stern window, admitting a grey morning and peering in himself with an inquisitive expression on his ratlike face.

There were two deadlights of Muscovy glass that let in weak beams of light from God knew where.