Strong wooden shutters to close the cabin windows of a ship; they deaden or kill the daylight.
To ship the dead lights. To draw the shutter over the cabin window; to keep out the sea when a gale is expected.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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