Gizmo Quiz - Volume 2 - Issue 9 - What Is It?

[bunltd]

Can you tell me what this [bunlimited.com] is? It'd be nice if you also describe it's function...

Have fun!

LisaB

[lgn]

torch lighter

[Lilliabeth]

It must be a lamp?

[PatrickDeese]

Torch holder?

[bunltd]

lgn: not a torch lighter...

PatrickDeese: torch holder, that's more or less the function but that's not the name I'm looking for...

Lilliabeth: you could call it a primitive lamp, but that's not what it's called.

[PatrickDeese]

a taper holder?

[coconutz]

oil lamp, burns whale oil or something similar

[bunltd]

Not tapers.

Read back a couple of pages for a hint... msg #:102, msg #:104

no coconutz, burns no oil.

[lgn]

torch snuffer

[lorax]

It's not a candelabra is it?

[bunltd]

lgn, snuffing is what you'd do if you didn't want to use this gizmo.

[bunltd]

candelabra? nope, no candles.

but if you were to call it a somethingelse-abra, yes you could say that it is. (but that's not it's name)

[coconutz]

pitch pine candle?

[PatrickDeese]

abracad-abra? ;P

No, seriously. I guess maybe a tinder holder for lighting fires?

[tax1dr1ver]

Prior to the Revolutionary War, open oil lamps and rushlights were very popular. The rushlight had a pincer attachment holding a reed that could be moved up as the reed burned out. It was a pliers-like device on a wooden or wrought iron stand. Sometimes the pith of a swamp reed was soaked in grease in a dish-like affair called a grisset and then used in the rushholder.

[bunltd]

I so want to give you more of a hint, but I know that banging one's head on the keyboard is part of the fun... ;)

tax1dr1ver - you're very close, but wrong name and wrong nationality.

[tax1dr1ver]

Not american?

[smokin]

is it a lantern?
is the name of this device in the English dictionary?

[bunltd]

Correct, not American.

[bunltd]

not a lantern, but it's end use function is that of a lantern.

probably not in the dictionary as such.

[Lilliabeth]

courting lamp?

[tax1dr1ver]

European?

[lgn]

filement holder for the first light bulbs

[smokin]

which country did this device originate from?

[bunltd]

European? No.

Courting Lamp - no.

No light bulbs.

smokin: Russia

[tax1dr1ver]

So it doesn't use a Rush or Reed?

[bunltd]

tax1dr1ver - uses something other than a rush or reed.

[bunltd]

the something this gizmo uses is key to it's name.

[PatrickDeese]

does it burn bunches of dry hay or grass or tundra?

[tax1dr1ver]

If this device is russian in origin. Would it have been found in american homes?

[bunltd]

PatrickDeese: No dry hay or grass or tundra