safety lamp

1. 1.

   an oil lamp that will not ignite flammable gases (methane)

   SynonymsDavy lamp

   Broaderoil lamp

Questions about safety lamp

What does safety lamp mean?

safety lamp means "an oil lamp that will not ignite flammable gases (methane)".

What is another word for safety lamp?

Close synonyms include Davy lamp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is safety lamp a common word?

safety lamp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.