a safety lamp for use in flammable atmospheres, invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy, to reduce the danger of explosions due to the presence of methane and other flammable gases; Davy lamp
lampmaker, an artisan who makes and sells lamps; a person charged with maintaining oil or kerosene lamps in an establishment (such as a monastery, theater, boarding home); a worker responsible for maintaining lamps and for issuing them from the lamp room at the start of a shift; lampman; fall guy (worker who bears the blame or punishment for a superior's failure or misdeed)