Dictionary Entry
sconce
sconce is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fortification, or work for defense; a fort. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1past participle
A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.
- 2past participle
A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
- 3past participle
A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.
- 4past participle
Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.
- 5past participle
A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
- 6past participle
A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.
- 7past participle
Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
- 8past participle
A squinch.
- 9past participle
A fragment of a floe of ice.
- 10past participle
A fixed seat or shelf.
- 11transitive verb
To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.
- 12transitive verb
To mulct; to fine.
- 13noun
a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light
- 14noun
a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce
- 15noun
a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate
- 16noun
a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather
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