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noun

Wich, wick n.

A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick.

(Curling) A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players.

wick n. A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned. "But true it is, that when the oil is spent The light goes out, and wick is thrown away."

verb

wick v. i. (Curling) To strike a stone in an oblique direction.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wick" Quotes from Famous Books

... not for the Sabbath lamps. Why are wicks made of the above materials prohibited? Because they give but a flickering light. The oily substances mentioned are forbidden because they do not adhere to the wick. ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

... the blade. The inside of the shell is thus cleaned and prepared for use as an eating or drinking dish. Torches or bamboo lamps formerly supplied the dwellings with light. Lamps consisting of a section of bamboo filled with oil and fitted with a cord wick are still in use, but for the most part they have been superseded by tin lamps of Chinese manufacture. Oil for them is extracted from crushed seeds of the ...

— The Tinguian - Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe • Fay-Cooper Cole

... found a mug with "A Present from Tunbridge Wells" on it lighted up in the staircase window with a floating wick, and a young woman, with a swelled face bound up in a flannel bandage blowing the fire of the drawing-room (now connected by an open door with Mrs. Jellyby's room) and choking dreadfully. It smoked to that degree, in short, that we all sat coughing and crying with ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... the right hand as one entered the hall. Within a lamp had just been lighted; even as Ambrose entered Colina was turning up the wick. ...

— The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner

... older man watch the younger one that the former burned his fingers twice in attempting to light the lantern. Yet at last the lantern was lighted, the wick turned up not too high, and then the older ...

— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham

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