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[greennotebook]

A few terms I've encountered while marking up in HTML the journals of Lachlan Macquarie (soldier, traveller, and sixth Governor of NSW).

blue-skins - "the Offspring of European Fathers, by Moor or Gentoo women".
cuddy - "The public or captain’s cabin of an Indiaman or other passenger ship." (The Hobson Jobson Dictionary of Anglo-Indian Terms)
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[prettygoodword]

I've seen dead-lights worked into the ceiling of cabins just below deck -- flat on top, prismoid below to scatter light about the space.

---L.

[greennotebook]

Yah, my boss mentioned that modern dead-lights are made from reinforced glass, rather than being additional shutters to reinforce the windows.