Dictionary Entry
wick
wick is a 4-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of Wich. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Alt. of Wich
- 2noun
A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned.
- 3intransitive verb
To strike a stone in an oblique direction.
- 4noun
a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
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- 5noun
any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
"the physician put a wick in the wound to drain it"
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