Definitions
a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
Word origin
The noun is derived from Middle English wek, weke, wicke (“fibrous cord drawing fuel to flame of a candle, etc.; material used to make this object”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle; wick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”).
Used in a sentence
“Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.”
“But true it is that vvhen the oyle is ſpent, / The light goes out, and vveeke is throvvne away; […]”
“And thus they spend / The little vvick of life's poor ſhallovv lamp, / In playing tricks vvith nature, giving lavvs / To diſtant vvorlds and trifling their ovvn.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Candle's burning string”4 letters
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