English

Noun

deadlight ‎(plural deadlights)

1. (nautical) A strong shutter fitted over a porthole etc. that can be closed in bad weather.
2. (figuratively) Eyelid.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.