Definitions for wick

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Spelling: [wik]

IPA: /wɪk/

Wick is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in wick (cikw).

Definitions for wick

noun

1. 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.
2. a narrow opening in the field, bounded by other players' stones.
3. British Dialect. a farm, especially a dairy farm.
4. Archaic. a village; hamlet.
5. a town in the Highland region, in N Scotland: herring fisheries.

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of wick

before 1000; Middle English wicke, weke, Old English wice, wēoc(e); cognate with Middle Dutch wiecke, Middle Low German wêke, Old High German wiohha lint, wick (German Wieke lint); akin to Sa

Examples for wick

Dabbing wax on the coil or using hash oil on the wick also works.

He lighted the lamp, turned down the wick, and replaced the chimney.

"Hardly," he responded, touching a light to the wick and replacing the chimney.

wick Allison speaks some truth to his fellow conservatives about fairness and how that translates to success at the ballot box.

There was a lamp, its wick turned low, burning upon the table in the room.

Then came a bright flash as the wick fell, and all was dark.

It is a wick which can only be trimmed by the sword of the faithful.'

The wick you can light, and it will burn for at least a minute.

One is "poor, obscure, plain and little"; the other is a "wild, wick slip."

Its flame was much less bright than it had been and the wick sputtered.