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What is a deadlight?

What is a deadlight? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) A strong (often wooden) shutter fitted over a porthole, that can be closed in bad weather to keep water out and discourage the glass windows from breaking.
  2. (nautical) A deck prism, a device to allow light into the cabin of boat through the deck.
  3. (figuratively) An eyelid.
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Those are a few of the questions raised by this year's Xbox Live Summer Of Arcade highlight Deadlight.
Then I flooded the boat rapidly through the deadlight till the water came to the level of the coaming.
As the deadlight had been closed over the port, the state-room was illumined only by a gray half-gloom from the cabin.
Then Ross casually glanced at the deadlight, and violently forced the girl to her seat.
The side facing me had five square windows complete with deadlight covers, all encrusted in coral.
Under this head may also be mentioned the Funa'l or deadlight, which was lighted in some churchyards at night.

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