furnace-lamp

Updated: July 23, 2025

But they had proved that the spermaceti would not burn to any purpose without a wick; and as their spare ropes were too precious to be all picked into oakum, they saw the necessity of economising their stock of the latter article. But for this deficiency, they might have permitted the furnace-lamp to burn on during the whole night, or until it should go out by the exhaustion of the wick.

Mayne Reid - The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea