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Oil Burning Cup Used As A Beacon Crossword Clue

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noun

• A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination.

• (coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.

44%9A floating aid to navigation, usually anchored, with a beacon or lighted beacon
noun

• a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable

34%12 Conveyors of a burning beacon
noun

• a leader in a campaign or movement

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New York Times12 Feb 1992 Down 8
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