Usually means: Cord for conveying fuel, lighting.
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  1. wick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wick: Merriam-Webster
  3. wick, wick, wick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wick: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wick: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wick, wick: Wordnik
  8. wick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Wick, -wick, wick: Wiktionary
  10. wick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wick: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Wick, wick: Dictionary.com
  14. wick (1), wick (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Wick, Wick (disambiguation), Wick (hieroglyph), Wick, -wick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wick: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wick: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wick: Rhymezone
  20. Wick: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wick: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. wick: FreeDictionary.org
  23. wick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. wick: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wick: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wick (disambiguation), wick: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wick: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. wick: Medical dictionary

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  1. WICK: Acronym Finder
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  3. wick: Idioms

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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wick, wick: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. W.I.C.K, wick: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wick: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Candle Making Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions.
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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