† moalern.
Obsolete. rare.
A kind of railway lamp. More fully moaler lamp.
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moaler1843
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quartz lamp1907
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1843 in R. Meeson & W. N. Welsby Rep. Cases Exchequer (1845) XII. 33 Scott v. The Eastern Counties Railway Company... On the 18th May, 1841, the defendants..agreed to purchase..one triangular lamp,..twelve moaler lamps, four square lamps, two new side lamps [etc.].
1843 in R. Meeson & W. N. Welsby Rep. Cases Exchequer (1845) XII. 35 The moaler, the square, and the new side lamps were delivered..and paid for.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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