miners' lamps

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Scope note
Lamps designed for use in mines; especially cast iron lamps often with a circular lidded font containing a single wick channel or tube and a D-shaped bail on pivots terminating in a spike or shallow pans with wick channels or supports and half bails terminating in hooks or spikes; also coffeepot-shaped spout lamps of tinned sheet iron worn on miners' caps.
miners' lamps
Accepted term: 30-Sep-2024