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DEAD-LIGHTS
DEAD-LIGHTS, certain wooden ports which are made to fasten into the cabin-windows, to prevent the waves from gushing into a ship in a high sea. As they are made exactly to fit the windows, and are strong enough to resist the waves, they are always fixed in, on the approach of a storm, and the glass frames taken out, which might otherwise be shattered to pieces by the surges, and suffer great quantities of water to enter the vessel.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 96, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0411.html