wick
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Substantiivi
wick englanniksi
(senseid) A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.
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(RQ:d'Anghiera Eden Newe Worlde)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum) Triall vvas likevviſe made of ſeuerall ''Wickes''; as of Ordinary ''Cotton''; ''Sovving Thred''; ''Ruſh''; ''Silke''; ''Stravv''; and ''VVood''.
(RQ:Boyle Air)
(RQ:Cowper Task)
(RQ:Thackeray Catherine)
(quote-journal)|location=London|publisher=Published for the proprietor, by Alexander Macintosh,(nb...); and sold by & Marshall|Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.,(nb...); Weale (publisher)|John Weale,(nb...); and G. Hebert,(nb...)|year_published=November 1843|volume=II (Enlarged Series)|issue=V|pages=292–293|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=aFkEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA292|oclc=321086315|passage=My improvements in the manufacture of candle-wick apply particularly to the common or well-known plaited or platted wick, used in candles, for supporting combustion, and consist, / Firstly, in the introduction of one, two, or more straight distended warps, to form the base of a platted or woven candle-wick, such wick being made from three or more strands of cotton; (..)
(synonym of) (“the material of which wicks ''((senseno))'' are made”).
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2)
Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by action; specifically , a strip of gauze placed in a wound, etc., to absorb fluids.
(senseid) ''Often in'' dip one's wick: the penis.
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(RQ:Aldiss Soldier Erect)
Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by action.
Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.
''Chiefly followed by'' through ''or'' up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material.
(RQ:Livy Holland Romane Historie)
(RQ:Coke Institutes) in the North parts is called a Tacke, in Lancaſhire a Fermeholt, in Eſſex a Wike.|brackets=on
(RQ:Jefferies Wild Life)
(synonym of).
(RQ:Gaskell Mary Barton)
(quote-book)|seriesvolume=XVII|location=London|publisher=Printed for the (w), by T. Richards,(nb...)|page=215|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/earlyenglishpoet17percuoft/page/215/mode/1up|oclc=278026575|passage=Thinks Abey, t' oud codger 'll nivver smoak t' trick, / I'll swop wi' him my poor deead horse for his wick, (..)
(quote-book),(nb...)|page=573|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/glossaryofclevel00atki/page/573/mode/1up|oclc=1439946971|passage=T' ''wickest'' young chap at ivver Ah seen.|translation=The ''liveliest'' young chap as ever I've seen.
(quote-book) For the (w), by Trübner|Trübner & Co,(nb...)|page=275|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXQKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA275|column=1|oclc=3298337|passage=I thowt they was dead last back end but they're ''wick'' enif noo.
(quote-journal), and printed by John Edward Francis,(nb...)|volume=IV (10th Series)|issue=87|page=170|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_notes-and-queries_1905-08-26_4_87/page/170/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=611217138|passage="Are you afraid of going across the churchyard in the dark?" a young lady inquired of an old woman. "Lor' bless yer noä miss! It isn't dead uns I'm scar'd on, it's wick uns." (..) I heard at the village of Yaddlethorpe, some five years after, a mother scolding her child. Among other threats, she said, "I'll skin ye wick." This threat with us usually takes the more modern form of "I'll skin ye alive."
(RQ:Burnett Secret Garden)?" she said. "Is that one quite alive—quite?" / Dickon curved his wide smiling mouth. / "It's as wick as you or me," he said; and Mary remembered that Martha had told her that "wick" meant "alive" or "lively." / "I'm glad it's wick!" she cried out in her whisper. "I want them all to be wick. Let us go round the garden and count how many wick ones there are."
(RQ:Herriot If Only) is as wick as an eel. Could kick a fly's eye out.
A maggot.
The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
Life; also, liveliness.
A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
(RQ:Markham Cavelarice)
(RQ:Hogg Brownie)
(RQ:Nabokov Ada)
(short for).
A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
(synonym of).
To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
(RQ:Burns Poems)|footer=That is, to drive a curling stone through an opening between two other stones.
To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
(RQ:Scott Pirate)
(RQ:Clare Village Minstrel)
Wickers collectively; also, (synonym of).
(alternative form of)
An inlet of the sea, such as a creek or small bay; also, an open bight.