drop light

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drop light (plural drop lights)

  1. A lamp that is suspended, for example via a cable.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 185:
      A single drop light burned far back, beyond an open, once-gilt elevator.
  2. (railways) A window in a train carriage that is opened by pushing it downward into the door.
    • 1965, Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis, Railway carriages in the British Isles: from 1830 to 1914, page 58:
      Ventilation was by louvres and brass grilles over the windows and by droplights in the end doors.
    • 1964, The Indian Railway Gazette, volume 62, number 6, page 142:
      The side doors to the cab have been replaced by droplights and the train will not start unless these are closed or within a few inches of the closed position.