Wick is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WICK in dictionary:

VERB:
• absorb or draw off (liquid) by capillary action
• To strike a stone in an oblique direction.
• (of a material) draw in (water, fuel, etc)
NOUN:
• a bundle of loosely twisted fibers in a candle or oil lamp, also WEEKE
• a strip of porous material up which liquid fuel is drawn by capillary action to the flame in a candle, lamp, or lighter.
• a gauze strip inserted in a wound to drain it.
• a town, hamlet, or district
• a dairy farm.
• cord through a lamp or candle which carries fuel to the flame
• Alt. of Wich
• 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.
• any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
• a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
ADJECTIVE:
• quick, lively, or active
• lively or active

Words related to WICK

weeke12 wicking17 wickings18 wickless17 wicks14

Words that contain WICK

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How to use WICK in a sentence

• When he had set the lamp down again, with a grunt, he put his black thumb on the wick and squeezed out the light.
• He would only cut off a bit of the wick with the bullet.
• The bowl was filled with grease and a rag or wick placed in it, one end resting on the edge for lighting.
• Candle wick is as good for this purpose as anything you can use.
• When they were fairly within they shut the door, and the seaman turned up the wick of the lamp overhead.
• Without visible derangement of the functions, her life seemed only a wick glimmering in the socket.
• I said nothing, but I observed that the lamp was smoking, and I turned down the wick.
• By means of another wire a wick is suspended in each tumbler and the tumbler filled with oil.
• I took advantage of this to pocket some lumps of fat, intending to make a candle with it and a wick composed of some twisted threads from my shirt.
• When first beginning operations, the wick is introduced into each mould by hand.
• A slight downward tension is exerted upon the wick by hand, then a new operation is begun.
• The heat of the burning tallow melts more of the tallow near it, and this liquid fat is quickly sucked up into the burning wick.
• Gases and carbon particles are set free by the burning wick.
• Seal oil is used as fuel, and a rag, if there is any to be had, or moss, resting upon the straight side of the lamp, does service as the wick.
• A shaded lamp with the wick turned down stood on a little table by the side of the bed.
• In the hollow part they put the oil, mixed with a little dry grass, which serves the purpose of a wick.
• Thus the succession of being is kept up with transmitted responsibility, as a flame is transferred from one wick to another.
• Since the scandal about the Swedish girl, Wick Cutter could never get his wife to stir out of Black Hawk without him.
• Indeed, a curious little wick floating on a cup of oil was lighted at night for my benefit, but it only illumined the great source of the terror which made night hideous to me.
• His grimy hands shine with paraffin, and the oil, sunk and blackened in his nails, gives them a look of wick ends.
• Her hands trembled every night as Graul lit the wick, and she arched her palms above to shield it from the wind.
• Pendleton turned up the wick and sank into a chair, covering her face with her hands.
• They had been packed with a cotton wick fastened to a small bar of wood at the bottom of each hole.
• Wick and I were still pacing the deck talking business.
• From its point of vantage, secured by waiting at the hotel for it, the tourist traffic looked down upon the Wick family on the pavement, in irritating compassion.
• Wick to say that she could spend a lifetime in Florence, if the houses only had a few modern conveniences.
• Still they are capable of holding oil and retaining a wick.

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