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glim

/glim/US // glɪm //UK // (ɡlɪm) //

瞥见,瞥一眼,瞥见了,瞥了一眼

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a light or lamp.
    • : Scot. a little bit; small portion; scrap.

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Examples

  • At length Captain Perez rose and, knocking the ashes from his pipe, announced that he was going to "show a glim."

  • Lets have a glim, said Sikes, or we shall go breaking our necks, or treading on the dog.

  • The glim of one of my skylights is dousted, and is battened down for ever.

  • I suspect he would have dowsed his glim in no little hurry if one of his officers had hove in sight.

  • If you go forward you will see that we have dowsed every glim on board, even to our mast-head and side lights.