Crossword clues for deadlight
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deadlight \Dead"light`\, n. (Naut.) A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) A strong shutter fitted over a porthole etc. that can be closed in bad weather. 2 (context figurative English) eyelid.
WordNet
n. a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather
Wikipedia
Deadlight is a 2012 sidescrolling cinematic platforming/ survival horror video game developed by Tequila Works and published by Microsoft Studios for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. It was released for Xbox 360 in August via Xbox Live Arcade, and for Windows in October via Steam. In August 2014, it was also made available for Windows via Humble Bundle. In 2016, a Director's Cut version of the game was released for Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, published by Deep Silver.
The game is intended as a throwback and homage to the classic sidescrolling cinematic platformers of the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Prince of Persia, Another World and Flashback. Set in Seattle in 1986, the game tells the story of Randall Wayne, a former park ranger who sets out to find his family in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Separated from the group with whom he has joined, Wayne must attempt to traverse Seattle to get to the "safe zone", where he believes his family will be waiting. On the way however, he must avoid both zombie hordes, and a group of vigilantes known as the "New Law", who have established themselves as the de facto authority in Seattle. As he travels across the city, he begins to question his memory of the events during the early stages of the outbreak.
Deadlight received mixed reviews, with critics praising the graphics and atmosphere, but criticizing the game's brevity and linearity. The PC version was generally seen as superior to the Xbox 360 version. The game was nominated for "Best Debut Game" at the 9th British Academy Games Awards, losing to The Unfinished Swan.
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.