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wick
1[wik]
noun
a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.
verb (used with object)
to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
wick
2[wik]
noun
a narrow opening in the field, bounded by other players' stones.
wick
3[wik]
noun
British Dialect.a farm, especially a dairy farm.
Archaic.a village; hamlet.
Wick
4[wik]
noun
a town in the Highland region, in N Scotland: herring fisheries.
wick
1/ ɪ /
noun
a cord or band of loosely twisted or woven fibres, as in a candle, cigarette lighter, etc, that supplies fuel to a flame by capillary action
slangto cause irritation to a person
wick
2/ ɪ /
adjective
lively or active
alive or crawling
a dog wick with fleas
Wick
3/ ɪ /
noun
a town in N Scotland, in Highland, at the head of Wick Bay (an inlet of the North Sea). Pop: 7333 (2001)
wick
4/ ɪ /
noun
archaica village or hamlet
Other 51Թ Forms
- wickless adjective
- ˈɾ쾱Բ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wick1
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Origin of wick3
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wick1
Origin of wick2
Origin of wick3
Example Sentences
If a person is going to betray their partner, the bonfires have a way of lighting that wick and exploding seasons into chaos.
He’d even left the gates propped open, knowing that they could otherwise act like candle wicks, guiding fire closer to the house.
Nguyen’s prose is the wick that ignited the charges he set on our screens.
The system, made from recycled polypropylene, uses wicks to move water from the reservoir to the plants as needed.
If you’re wearing the correct layers, you can feel perspiration wick away from your body, she said.
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