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Word entry · 11 letters

candlestick

Best crossword clue

"Wax-light holder"

11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /ˈkændəlˌstɪk/Part of speech nounSorted accdeiklnstStarts with CEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a holder with sockets for candles

Word origin

From Middle English candelstik, candelstikke, from Old English candelsticca (“candlestick”), equivalent to candle + stick. Cognate with Scots candilsteke, candilstik (“candlestick”). Compare Old Norse kertastika, kertistika (“candlestick”).

Used in a sentence

  • Neither doe men light a candle, and put it vnder a bushell: but on a candlesticke, and it giueth light vnto all that are in the house.
  • Sorcerers and other practitioners of witchcraft used to make a variety of candlestick called the Hand of Glory, chiefly from the flesh of criminals[.]
  • Planes fell in flames, planes fell not in flames. Men fell in flames, men fell safely in their parachutes, some candlesticked.

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