deadlight

How To Use deadlight In A Sentence

• She lay with him one afternoon, when a scrap of sunlight spearing through a chink in the scuttle's deadlight was scribing an oval shape on the opposite bulkhead, and she mentally added up the number of rooms in her Lincolnshire house. Sharpe's Trafalgar
• The gooseneck vents were covered and heavy deadlights were swung across the scuttles and clipped down along the entire ship's sides. LET NOT THE DEEP
• Grace lay beside him, gazing up at the deck, listening to the hiss of rain falling on the deadlight of the cabin's scuttle. Sharpe's Trafalgar
• When all hands were called, I rubbed my eyes in astonishment, for as I glanced out of the deadlight near which my hammock swung, I saw that we were under way and well out to sea. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"
• The closed deadlights indicate the ship had been secured for heavy weather prior to wrecking.
• As the cube settled slowly to the ground, the adventurers left the deadlight to use the windows. The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
• I heard the cook close the door behind me and bolt it and cover the deadlight with a tin pan. The Mutineers
• They are certainly particular about showing light after dark; by 6 p.m. all port-holes are closed, and every cabin has its iron deadlight down. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"
• As we dropped off the tip of the bow to seabed level and swam along the wreck, we could see numerous portholes, all with heavy-duty deadlights securely fixed shut.
• It was hot in the room, and rather dark, as the deadlight to the poop-deck was fogged by sea water. Isle o' Dreams