wick

Các nghĩa

1. bấc · bấc đèn

   A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.

   countable

   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; […]

   The dice went rattling on; the candles were burning dim, with great long wicks.

2. giòi

   Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks (etymology 1, noun sense 1) are made”).

   uncountable

   There liues vvithin the very flame of loue / A kind of weeke or ſnufe that vvill abate it, […]

3. phần gốc cây

   Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; specifically (medicine), a strip of gauze placed in a wound, etc., to absorb fluids.

   broadly · countable

4. rễ cỏ dại còn sống

   Often in dip one's wick: the penis.

   countable · euphemistic · slang

   His wick was stone stiff.

   Her laugh wasn't cruel in tone, but it cut through Husk like a scalpel, withering his wick even further.

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• wicks plural

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