smoking-lamp

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A lamp hung up on board of a man-of-war during hours when smoking is permitted, for the men to light their pipes by.
2. n. In physiology, a lamp employed for the smoking of the glazed paper fastened to the drum of the kymograph. Various forms of smoking-lamps are in use, the most common, perhaps, being gas-burners with broad fish-tail flames, petroleum-lamps with very broad wicks, and lamps fitted with an air-bulb to spray the soot upon the paper.