toplight

English

Alternative forms

• top-light, top light

Etymology

top +‎ light

Noun

toplight (plural toplights)

1. (nautical) A lantern or light on the top of a vessel.
2. Alternative form of top light.
   • 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 395:

     Although exhibiting some typical Bulleid design features — the continuous curve of the bodyside and the toplights above the door droplights being particularly characteristic — the interior of the vehicles owed much to Maunsell era practice.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “toplight”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

• “top light”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.