Bude light

English

Etymology

From Bude in Cornwall, the home of its inventor.

Noun

Bude light (plural Bude lights)

1. (historical) A light in which a jet of oxygen or air is introduced into the centre of a flame.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Bude light”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)