Definition of "jacklight" []

• A light used as a lure in night hunting or fishing. (noun)
• To hunt or fish with a jacklight. (verb-intransitive)

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• "I did, however, get a kick out of a court session in Autauga County, AL, in which a father was busted for teaching his sons how to jacklight deer."
• "In the evenings he read The Toledo Blade and the Grand Rapids paper by the lamp in the front room or went out spearing fish in the bay with a jacklight with D. J. Smith."
• "Now and then one would stand and stare, his eye-balls gleaming like coals of fire; and at last came the roar of the gun, and the jacklight tumbled to the ground."