Carcel lamp

1. A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.