bitch n.2
(US, Western) an improvised lamp made of a twist of rag in a container of grease.
![]() | AS I:12 650: Bitch—a tin can of grease with a wick. | ‘Hobo Lingo’ in|
![]() | Trails Plowed Under 159: They were forced to use a ‘bitch,’ which was a tin cup filled with bacon grease and a twisted rag wick. It didn’t only give light—it gave its owners a smell like a New England dinner. | |
![]() | Milk and Honey Route 199: Bitch – A tin-can lamp with a shirt-tail wick. | |
![]() | Cowboy Lingo 13: He invented a light by filling a tin cup with bacon grease into which was placed a twisted-rag wick. This he called a ‘bitch’. | |
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
![]() | Walk on the Wild Side 16: He turned the smoking bitch lamp low. | |
![]() | When Me Was A Boy 30: I am goin’ to encounter a pit latrine. Down the hill from the yard on a moonless night with a piece of ole newspaper an a ‘kitchen bitch’ lamp. | |
![]() | Legs 28: There’s nothing better than a bitch to give a boxcar a homey feeling on a dark night. |