Usually means: Safety lamp for underground miners.
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  1. Davy lamp: Merriam-Webster
  2. Davy lamp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Davy lamp: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Davy lamp: Vocabulary.com
  5. Davy lamp: Wordnik
  6. Davy lamp: Wiktionary
  7. Davy lamp: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Davy lamp, davy lamp: Dictionary.com
  9. Davy lamp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Davy lamp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Davy lamp: Rhymezone
  12. Davy lamp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. davy lamp: FreeDictionary.org
  14. davy lamp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Davy lamp: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Davy lamp: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Davy lamp: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Davy lamp)

noun:  (mining, historical) A miners' lamp or safety lamp used in coal mines to prevent explosions.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Davy lamp [(mining, historical) A miners' lamp or safety lamp used in coal mines to prevent explosions.]

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