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search-light
n. (alternative spelling of searchlight English)
Usage examples of "search-light".
There were big search-lights on that front mounted on camions that you passed sometimes on the roads at night, close behind the lines, the camion stopped a little off the road, an officer directing the light and the crew scared.
As far as Holmsby could see, she carried no guns, but on each side of the for'ard deck-house was a search-light, capable of throwing a beam well ahead with a good elevation, abeam, or vertically downwards.
First, there was a siren, and then the Wind of Good Fortune was in the light of a search-light, and finally there came machine-gun fire, which, after a moment, walked its way through the water and into the hull of the Wind of Good Fortune.