Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.
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- noun A
light in which ajet ofoxygen orair is introduced into the centre of aflame .
Etymologies
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From Bude in Cornwall, the home of its inventor.
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