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Значения термина wick на английском

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A string that holds the flame of a candle.

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Egyptian hieroglyph.

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Examples for "candlewick"
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There were salmon-coloured candlewick bedspreads and a chandelier with small orange-pink shades, not quite matching.
Small wars: a novel
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The king snuffs out the candlewick and smears the soot between his thumb and forefinger.
Daughters of the Nile
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I didn't know my dick from a candlewick.
Dangerous Women
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Why doth the fire fasten upon the candlewick?
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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She was wearing an old candlewick bathrobe.
61 hours
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This was sometimes made by dipping a candle wick into melted tallow.
Stories of American Life and Adventure
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A candle wick flickered and caught.
American Gods
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A crown of angry red formed upon the candle wick, which toppled over in the socket and guttered out with a sharp hiss.
A Foregone Conclusion
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The candle wick burned long, and was topped by a little cap of fiery red that seemed to wink at us like an impish gnome.
The Golden Road
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He laughed gaily as he went through the historically famous test of courage in snuffing the flaring candle wicks with his fingers.
Westways: A Village Chronicle
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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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Использование термина wick на английском
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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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