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candlewicks

candlewicks is the plural 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

Questions about candlewicks

What is candlewicks the plural of?
Candlewicks is the plural of candlewick.

Words near candlewicks in the dictionary

  1. candlewasters
  2. candlewax
  3. candlewick
  4. candlewicked
  5. candlewicking
  6. candlewicks
  7. candlewood
  8. candlewoods
  9. candleworks
  10. candlewright
  11. candlewrights

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