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Running light   /rˈənɪŋ laɪt/   Listen
Running light

noun
1.
Light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow.  Synonym: sidelight.






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"Running light" Quotes from Famous Books



... "She's sure running light, all right. Now," Bud added sardonically, but with the whimsical quirk withal, "if it was like a carburetor, and you could give ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower

... the faro banks the first night, and the next day did not have a dollar. I started out on the street and soon met a man that I knew by the name of John Wilson. I saw by his actions he was like myself, "running light," for he did not ask me to take something, which I knew was his custom, for he was a clever fellow. We understood each other very soon, and parted. I had not gone very far until I heard some one ...
— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol



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