WordNet
n. an oil lamp with a glass chimney and perforated metal lid to protect the flame from high winds; candlestick with a glass chimney [syn: hurricane lamp, hurricane lantern, tornado lantern, storm lamp]
Usage examples of "storm lantern".
Then someone unshuttered a storm lantern, pinning him in a wash of orange light.
She stood just inside the doorway, holding up a storm lantern in her left hand.
They laboured on after dark, by the feeble yellow light of the storm lantern, and the stream of suffering never dried up, rather it seemed to grow ever denser, so that the pale ravaged faces in the lantern light blurred before Centaine's exhausted eyes and became indistinguishable one from the other, and the feeble words of cheer which she gave each of them were repetitive and meaningless in her own ears.
Flinging it full back she picked up a storm lantern and lowered it, focusing its gleam downward.
The pews-perhaps they had been only benches-were gone, and the bare, shadowy space was unfurnished except for several straight chairs and a wooden table on which the storm lantern now rested.