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▸ noun: Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action, such as a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain.
▸ noun: (curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
▸ noun: (curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
▸ noun: (slang, euphemistic) The penis.
▸ verb: (transitive) To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of a liquid) To traverse (i.e. be conveyed by capillary action) through a wick or other porous material, as water through a sponge. Usually followed by through.
▸ verb: (curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.
▸ noun: (British, dialect, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm, especially a dairy farm.
▸ adjective: (British, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
▸ adjective: (British, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire, of inanimate objects) resistant to being put to use, stiff, stubborn (as for example a rope or a screw).
▸ noun: (British, obsolete, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Liveliness; life.
▸ noun: (British, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
▸ noun: (British, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire, horticulture) (Usually plural) The parts of weed roots that remain viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
▸ noun: (British, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) A maggot.
▸ noun: (obsolete or dialectal) A corner or angle.
▸ noun: (obsolete or dialectal) A grove; a hollow.
▸ noun: (now dialectal) A corner of the mouth or eye.
▸ noun: (obsolete or Northern England, Scotland) An inlet or bay.
▸ noun: A town in north-eastern Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND3650).
▸ noun: The Wick River, a river in Caithness, Highland council area, that flows through the town into Wick Bay on the North Sea.
▸ noun: A number of places in England:
▸ noun: A hamlet in Luppitt parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST1703).
▸ noun: An eastern suburb of Bournemouth in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset (OS grid ref SZ1951).
▸ noun: A village in Wick and Abson parish, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7072).
▸ noun: A hamlet in Brent Knoll parish, Somerset, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST3253)
▸ noun: A hamlet in Curry Rivel parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4026).
▸ noun: A hamlet in Stogursey parish, Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST2144).
▸ noun: A northern suburb of Littlehampton, Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0203).
▸ noun: A village in Downton parish, south Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1621).
▸ noun: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO9645).
▸ noun: A village and community in Vale of Glamorgan county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9272).
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.
▸ noun: (countable) A surname from Old English.
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taper,
wich,
candlewick,
winding sheet,
windle,
candle-wick,
wickmaking,
dipped candle,
candlewax,
twire,
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