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n. 1 (dated form of penlight English) 2 (context dated English) A battery or cell of size AA, size AAA, or size N.Howard G. McEntree, “Clever New Gadgets Run on Flashlight Batteries”, in ''Popular Science'', Volume 174, Number 3 (March 1959), .

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Firstly there was a compact tool kit which contained a keyhole saw and hand drill, drill bits and augers, a box of hearing-aid batteries for the detonator and torch batteries for the transmitter, a Penlite torch, a five-hundred-foot roll of thin electrical wire, diamond glass-cutters, putty, staples and tiny one-ounce tins of touch-up paint.