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candle-wick

candle-wick is the archaic form of candlewick.

Meaning of candlewick

Noun

candlewick (countable and uncountable, plural candlewicks)

  1. (countable) The wick of a candle.
    • Accordingly, the next day I came provided with six large candles of my own making (for I made very good candles now of goat’s tallow, but was hard set for candle-wick, using sometimes rags or rope-yarn, and sometimes the dried rind of a weed like nettles); and going into this low place I was...1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC
  2. The thread used to make the wicks of candles.
  3. A soft cotton yarn that gives a tufted pattern to embroidery.
    • He sat on the candlewick bedspread and a woman came into the room and knelt on the floor in front of him.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 122

Forms of candle-wick

pluralcandle-wicks

Questions about candle-wick

What is candle-wick the archaic form of?
Candle-wick is the archaic form of candlewick.

Words near candle-wick in the dictionary

  1. candle-stubs
  2. candle-waster
  3. candle-wasters
  4. candle-wasting
  5. candle-wastings
  6. candle-wick
  7. candle-wicks
  8. candle-wood
  9. candle-woods
  10. candlebark
  11. candlebarks

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