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Significados de wick en inglés

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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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                    Uso de wick en inglés
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                    The wick had been trimmed, and Cartwright was in for the evening.
                    The Rangeland Avenger
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                    She raised the chimney and lit the lamp, and regulated the wick.
                    Clayhanger
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                    Here the socket of the candle dropped, and the wick went out.
                    Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
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                    Buck Daniels ran to the big lamp and turned up the wick.
                    The Night Horseman
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                    The wick dips into the clear molten wax and the flame falters.
                    Caleb's crossing
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                    He lighted the lamp, turned down the wick, and replaced the chimney.
                    Way of the Lawless
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                    The wick sputtered, then caught, the flame spreading quickly along its length.
                    Hellfire
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                    There's even a length of wick in the shirt pocket, Ledford said.
                    The marrowbone marble company
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                    Use the bandana strip like a wick to provide better lighting accessibility.
                    Climbing Magazine
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                    My one deal-breaker is people with really pronounced nail wick but whatever.
                    News.com.au
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                    I found my way to the kerosene lamp and lit the wick.
                    The blue edge of midnight
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                    While the wick of the taper was burning up, he listened again.
                    Hide and Seek
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                    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...
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                    An amber flame danced hypnotically on the wick of the oil lamp.
                    The brazen gambit
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                    I took out a match, scratched it, and touched the third wick.
                    Famous Modern Ghost Stories
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                    Soulsby nodded, and turned down the wick of his lamp a trifle.
                    The Damnation of Theron Ware
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