coal oil lamp

noun, a lantern that runs off of coal oil

“So you didn’t have the convenience. We have them old coal oil lamps, and you’d just sit them on the corner of the table.”

“When we did get electricity, I remember we were so excited. You just flick a switch and this light would come on … I recall my sister and I, one was at the top of the stairs and the other at the bottom, and flick them back and forth, and it was just amazing with this, how the light would work instead of the coal oil lamps.”