Meaning of Wick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A maggot.
   England, UK, Yorkshire, countable, dialectal
2. A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
   England, dialectal
3. A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
   England
4. An inlet, such as a creek or small bay.
   England, Northern-England, Scotland
5. A basket made of wickers (“flexible branches or twigs of a plant such as willow woven together”); a creel.
   England, countable
6. A town in north-eastern Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND3650).
7. A number of places in England:
   countable, uncountable
8. A hamlet in Luppitt parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST1703).
   countable, uncountable
9. A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil 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.
   countable
10. A hamlet or village; also, a town.
    England
11. The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
    England, UK, Yorkshire, countable, dialectal, uncountable
12. Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth”).
    England, abbreviation, alt-of, dialectal
13. Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through”).
    England
14. Wickers collectively; also, synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together”).
    England, uncountable
15. A river in Caithness, Highland council area that flows through the town into Wick Bay on the North Sea; in full, the Wick River.
16. An eastern suburb of Bournemouth in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset (OS grid ref SZ1951).
    countable, uncountable
17. Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks (etymology 1 sense 1) are made”).
    uncountable
18. A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.
    East-Anglia, England, Essex
19. The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
    England, UK, Yorkshire, countable, dialectal, in-plural, uncountable
20. A grove; also, a hollow.
    England, dialectal
21. A village in Wick and Abson parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7072).
    countable, uncountable
22. Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; specifically (medicine), a strip of gauze placed in a wound, etc., to absorb fluids.
    broadly, countable
23. An enclosed piece of land; a close.
    England, obsolete
24. Life; also, liveliness.
    England, UK, Yorkshire, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
25. A hamlet in Brent Knoll parish, Somerset, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST3253)
    countable, uncountable
26. Often in dip one's wick: the penis.
    countable, euphemistic, slang
27. A hamlet in Curry Rivel parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4026).
    countable, uncountable
28. A hamlet in Stogursey parish, Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST2144).
    countable, uncountable
29. A northern suburb of Littlehampton, Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0203).
    countable, uncountable
30. A village in Downton parish, south Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1621).
    countable, uncountable
31. A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO9645).
    countable, uncountable
32. A village and community in Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9272).
    countable, uncountable
33. An unincorporated community in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States.
    countable, uncountable
34. An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.
    countable, uncountable
35. A surname from Old English.
    countable

Equivalents

Examples

“Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.”

“Theſe cordes, they caule Cabuia and Henequen, which are al one thing ſauyng that Henequen is leſſe and of a fyner ſubſtaunce as it were line: And the other is groſſer lyke the wycke or twyſte of hempe, and is imperfecte in compariſon to the other.”

“But true it is that vvhen the oyle is ſpent, / The light goes out, and vveeke is throvvne away; […]”

“But novv vvee vvill ſpeake of the Continuance of Flames, ſuch as are vſed for Candles, Lamps, or Tapers; conſiſting of Inflammable Matters, and of a VVieke that prouoketh Inflammation. […] Triall vvas likevviſe made of ſeuerall Wickes; as of Ordinary Cotton; Sovving Thred; Ruſh; Silke; Stravv; and VVood.”

“[W]e may take notice of the Smoak that iſſues out of the VVeik of a Candle nevvly blovvn out; for vvhilſt the ſooty Corpuſcles retain their Bigneſe and Texture, they are able to offend the Noſtrils very much by their Stink; […]”

“And thus they spend / The little vvick of life's poor ſhallovv lamp, / In playing tricks vvith nature, giving lavvs / To diſtant vvorlds and trifling their ovvn.”

“The dice went rattling on; the candles were burning dim, with great long wicks.”

“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; […]”

“There liues vvithin the very flame of loue / A kind of weeke or ſnufe that vvill abate it, […]”

“His wick was stone stiff.”

“Thrusting his head out of a miniature waterfall, Di asked, 'You don't feel like a bit of a bunk-up this evening, Stubby, by any chance?' / 'A bit of what?' / 'Dipping your wick, man!' / This was unlike the staid, chapel-going Di I thought I knew. 'I'm careful where I dip my wick, mate. Got a bit of respect for it.'”

“Her laugh wasn't cruel in tone, but it cut through Husk like a scalpel, withering his wick even further.”

“And by report, there vvere eight thouſand Gaules there ſlaine: the reſt abandoned the vvarre, and ſlipt every one into their ovvne vvickes and villages.”

“Note a fearme [farm] in the North parts is called a Tacke, in Lancaſhire a Fermeholt, in Eſſex a Wike.”

“Wick Farm—almost every village has its outlying ‘wick’—stands alone in the fields.”

“Fed close? Why, it’s eaten into t’ hard wick.”

“[H]ee vvould therefore haue you to make ſome expert Horſe farrier, to ſlit vp the vveekes of your Horſes mouth, equallie on both ſides of his cheekes, vvith a ſharpe rayſor, and then to ſeare it vvith a hot yron, and ſo heale it in ſuch ſorte, as the ſydes thereof may no more grovv together, but appeare like a natural mouth: to vvhome I make this anſvvere, that I imagine neither hee, nor any other Horſe-man hath heere in England ſeene a horſe of that ſhallovvneſſe of mouth, vvhich vvold not giue place for a reaſonable bytt to lie in; […]”

“Croudy hung his head to one side, and chuckled, and crowed, and laid on the ground with his staff; and always now and then cast a sly look-out at the wick of his eye to Pery.”

“She considered him. A fiery droplet in the wick of her mouth considered him.”

“The power thou dost covet / O'er tempest and wave, / Shall be thine, thou proud maiden, / By beach and by cave,— / By stack and by skerry, by noup, and by voe, / By air and by wick, and by helyer and gio, / And by every wild shore which the northern winds know, / And the northern tides lave.”

“A captive fish still fills the anxious eyes / And willow-wicks lie ready for the prize; […]”

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