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Meanings of wick in English

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A string that holds the flame of a candle.

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        Egyptian hieroglyph.

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              A loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame.

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                    Usage of wick in English
                    1
                    The wick had been trimmed, and Cartwright was in for the evening.
                    The Rangeland Avenger
                    2
                    She raised the chimney and lit the lamp, and regulated the wick.
                    Clayhanger
                    3
                    Here the socket of the candle dropped, and the wick went out.
                    Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
                    4
                    Buck Daniels ran to the big lamp and turned up the wick.
                    The Night Horseman
                    5
                    The wick dips into the clear molten wax and the flame falters.
                    Caleb's crossing
                    6
                    He lighted the lamp, turned down the wick, and replaced the chimney.
                    Way of the Lawless
                    7
                    The wick sputtered, then caught, the flame spreading quickly along its length.
                    Hellfire
                    8
                    There's even a length of wick in the shirt pocket, Ledford said.
                    The marrowbone marble company
                    9
                    Use the bandana strip like a wick to provide better lighting accessibility.
                    Climbing Magazine
                    10
                    My one deal-breaker is people with really pronounced nail wick but whatever.
                    News.com.au
                    11
                    I found my way to the kerosene lamp and lit the wick.
                    The blue edge of midnight
                    12
                    While the wick of the taper was burning up, he listened again.
                    Hide and Seek
                    13
                    So they were slung round the neck by a yoke of lamp-wick.
                    The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
                    14
                    An amber flame danced hypnotically on the wick of the oil lamp.
                    The brazen gambit
                    15
                    I took out a match, scratched it, and touched the third wick.
                    Famous Modern Ghost Stories
                    16
                    Soulsby nodded, and turned down the wick of his lamp a trifle.
                    The Damnation of Theron Ware
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                    Portuguese
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                    Wick through the time
                    Wick across language varieties
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