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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A light hung out in the rigging at night when a vessel is riding at anchor. Also called stay-light.
Examples
“Lay out the anchor when you've had a smoke,' said Davies, and keep an eye on the riding-light; it's my only guide back. ”
“This plan succeeded at last, and with relief and humility I boarded her, relit the riding-light, and carried off the kedge anchor.”
“A glimmer of light, reflected from below, was wavering over the mizzen-mast and bumpkin; it had nothing to do with the riding-light, which hung on the forestay.”
“Davies had been engaged in fixing up the riding-light.”
“The cigar soon languished and dropped, and I dozed uneasily, for the riding-light was on my mind.”
“I had no riding-light up, and didn't intend to set one in such an anchorage as this.”
“Gadabout lay quietly at anchor, the riding-light upon her flagstaff gently swaying throughout the night.”
“I went on deck afterward to find the ship plunging through blackness on forced draft, with port-holes shrouded and with not even a riding-light.”
“They gained the veranda, where they sat in silence over their whisky, each man staring straight out to sea, where the wildly swinging riding-light of the Minerva could be seen in the lulls of the driving rain.”
“To anchor, and alone, lay the vessel, with but her riding-light to mark her in the dark; alone and quiet, with never a neighbor to hail us, nor a sound from any living thing whatever.”
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