Sekirov Dictionary

wick

/ˈwɪk/

noun 19
verb 5
adjective 1
forms 4
phrases 1

noun19

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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.
- Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.
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.
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Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks are made”).
- There liues vvithin the very flame of loue / A kind of weeke or snufe that vvill abate it, […] — 1599
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(slang, euphemistic) Often in dip one's wick: the penis.
- His wick was stone stiff. — 1969
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A hamlet or village; also, a town.
- 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. — 1600
A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
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(dialect) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
- Fed close? Why, it’s eaten into t’ hard wick.
[in the plural] (dialect) The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through”).
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A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.
- Note a fearme [farm] in the North parts is called a Tacke, in Lancashire a Fermeholt, in Essex a Wike. — 1628
(Scotland, Northern-England) An inlet, such as a creek or small bay.
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(dialect) A basket made of wickers (“flexible branches or twigs of a plant such as willow woven together”); a creel.
- A captive fish still fills the anxious eyes / And willow-wicks lie ready for the prize; […] — 1821
(dialect) Wickers collectively; also, synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together”).
(dialect) A maggot.
(dialect, no longer used) Life; also, liveliness.
(no longer used) An enclosed piece of land; a close.
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(dialect, no longer used) A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
- 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. — 1818
(dialect, no longer used) A grove; also, a hollow.
(dialect, no longer used) Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth”).

verb5

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Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
- The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.
Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.
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Chiefly followed by through or up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material.
- The moisture slowly wicked through the wood.
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To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
- He vvas the king of a' the Core, / To guard, or dravv, or vvick a bore, […] — 1787
To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.

adjective1

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(Northern-England) Synonym of quick (“alive, living; also, active, lively”).
- Well! yo must know I were in th' Infirmary for a fever, and times were rare and bad; and there be good chaps there to a man, while he's wick, whate'er they may be about cutting him up at after. — 1848

forms

wicked · wicking · wicks · wickest

Phrases with wick

dip one's wick
Of a man: to have sex.

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