Definitions for wicking

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wicking wick·ing

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IPA: /ˈwɪk ɪŋ/

Wicking is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in wicking (cgiiknw).

Definitions for wicking

noun

1. material for wicks.
2. a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.

verb (used with object)

1. to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

Origin of wicking

First recorded in 1840-50; wick¹ + -ing¹

Examples for wicking

At the same time, the wicking incursions, intermitted for nearly a century, once more recommenced with the same vigour as of old.

The wicking was cut twice the length of the candle and doubled over a stick made for the purpose and then twisted together.

Pass the wicking back and forth around the nails first on one side and then the other.

Tie a slip knot in the end of the wicking and slip it over one of the corner nails.

The men worked by the light of torches, which were often merely catsup jugs with wicking in the necks.

The titmouse took the cotton and would have taken the wicking, I think, if it had not been fastened in too tight for her.

These can then be caulked with oakum, cotton-batting, or wicking, or something of that nature.

A piece of wicking is drawn into the tube so that the upper end is within 1/4 in.

She thrust the wicking into the coals, and on the iron stalk a flame-flower sprang into huge blossom.

Work a brass ring with the blanket stitch, using a strand of the wicking and sew it to one of the corners.