lamp-holdern.
/ˈlampˌhəʊldə/, U.S. /ˈlæmpˌ(h)oʊldər/ A device for securing an electric lamp, a lamp-socket.
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lamp-holder1885
lamp-socket1908
1885 Electrician 14 416/1 Fig. 1 is the lamp-holder as fitted at the Royal Courts of Justice.
1892 Rep. from Comm. XVI. 404 All switches,..floor sockets, and lampholders shall have uninflammable bases.
1907 Installation News Sept. 14/2 In wiring Electroliers..it is generally found to be impracticable to group wires into the lamp~holders.
1935 Discovery June 183/2 An operation which is typical of a vast number of manipulative jobs in industry—the assembly of an ordinary electric lampholder consisting of eighteen parts.
1963 Times 6 May p. vii/5 Similarly, when in the interests of safety the traditional brass lampholder was replaced by its plastics successor, this was more or less a slavish imitation of the metal one.
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