blind lantern
noun1
A dark lantern.
- Another feeble wail from the infant. "'Tis a baby, sartain ! I'll go and get a blind lantern!" exclaimed the woman.1859, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Lionne, page 358:
- From the folds of his robe he brought out a blind lantern, a fat, stubby candle within set in a hard pine socket.1944, Gertrude Robinson, Fox Fire, page 33:
1 more example
- [S]he was moved to compassion and sprung out of the pot like the light of a candle comes out of a blind lantern [translating lanterna a bota].2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, page 29: