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plural deadlights
(nautical) A strong (often wooden) shutter fitted over a porthole, that can be closed in bad weather to keep water out and discourage the glass windows from breaking. examples
(nautical) A deck prism, a device to allow light into the cabin of boat through the deck. examples
(figurative) An eye. quotations examples
Here you comes and tells me of it plain; and here I let him give us all the slip before my blessed deadlights!
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883
(figurative) An eyelid. quotations examples
He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company
(architecture) Synonym of deadlite examples