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Meanings of long wick in English

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Usage of long wick in English
1
A single spark falling from the long wick would be ruin.
True Blue
2
The long wick curled over, the tiny beam faded, and was-gone.
A Son of the Hills
3
This mine was provided with a long wick, bound in gutta-percha, the end of which was outside.
The English at the North Pole / Part I of the Adventures of Capt...
4
Light the lamp, cut a long wick.
Fugitive pieces
5
The candle gives such a strange light with that long wick, and, somehow, your face does not look like you.
Ruth
6
Rifles in hand and the long wicked-looking bayonets gleaming they rushed ahead.
Fighting in France
7
One of the men offered him a long wicked-looking whip, but he spurned it.
At Home with the Jardines
8
Enough fluid has been wasted to-night by means of those long wicks to last two evenings with wicks of a proper length.
Eventide / A Series of Tales and Poems
9
But all this heat comes from a sort of lamp, with long wicks of moss and plenty of walrus fat to burn.
The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats ...
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