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Nov 28, 2009
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wick



Pronunciation: (wik), [key]
—n.
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.

—v.t.
to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

wick



Pronunciation: (wik), [key]
—n. Curling.
a narrow opening in the field, bounded by other players' stones.

wick



Pronunciation: (wik), [key]
—n.
1. Brit. Dial.a farm, esp. a dairy farm.
2. Archaic.a village; hamlet.

Wick



Pronunciation: (wik), [key]
—n.
a town in the Highland region, in N Scotland: herring fisheries. 7613.

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