lantern
/ˈlæ̝ntɚn/ verb C2- To furnish with a lantern. · to lantern a lighthouse
He/she/it lanterns · Past lanterned · Past participle lanterned · -ing form lanterning
Verb forms
- Base form
- lantern
- He/she/it
- lanterns
- Past
- lanterned
- Past participle
- lanterned
- -ing form
- lanterning
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With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
The thought gave me a kind o’ turn, and I walked back to the gate to see if I could see Murcher’s lantern, but there wasn’t no sign of him nor of anyone else.”
Holmes shot the slide across the front of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness—such an absolute darkness as I have never before experienced.
Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver.—S.H.
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