What is "handlamp"

Usage examples of "handlamp".

The handlamp on his suit sent a beam of white light ahead of him into the blackness inside.

Then Mirta grabbed his arm and pointed her handlamp down at the floor.

Caliban saw the beam of a handlamp stab out from the building side of the hatch.

Most of the things in the EVA locker were obvious enough-spacesuits and hazardous-atmosphere suits, four flybikes cleverly folded into their storage niches under the spacesuit closet, heavy-duty handlamps, camping gear, osmosis masks and scuba gear with flippers and spearguns, one EM-flying belt, three boxes of tools, two well-equipped med-kits, six sets of night-vision and IR goggles, an equal number of lightweight headsets with mike-bead communicators and vid cameras, and comlogs.

And the thought of huddling in an ice tomb as our handlamps and lanterns failed-which they would do quickly in this cold-just watching the heating cube cool and waiting to die .

The three of us pounded sock-mittens together for a moment, but then retreated to huddle near the heating cube and to play the handlamps on either side as new scenery floated by.

We had doused our handlamps and were crouching in the weighted darkness of that ice corridor, my plasma rifle charged and ready, when the dimmest of lights appeared at the next bend in the tunnel and large, inhuman shapes ambled around the corner.

Shivering, bent under the weight of the world's gravity, straining to see by their dim ember light after we had switched off our handlamps to conserve the batteries, making sure that my inertial compass was working, leaving its digital trail of crumbs behind as we walked, we followed Cuchiat and his men toward the Chitchatuk camp.

The unburdened used their handlamps to help guide the travois-haulers and watch for dangers to the sides.

Every morning they set out at false dawn, using handlamps until true dawn came.

So, using other working handlamps he'd found, he and Rissa and Trent searched downslope for Lisele.

With a possibility of Gardier in the area, the ship was still in blackout, and the deck was unlit except for a few small handlamps held by the sailors.

Stepping out onto the tailboard, she could see the flickering lights of small handlamps around the compound between the Mahlindi’s wagons and theirs and also at the edge of the trees and up at the road.

By turning out the entire contents of the temple storerooms, they had scrounged up several coils of rope and enough candles and handlamps to go around.