wick

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
4. A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
5. (slang) The penis.

Verb

1. To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
2. 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.
3. To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.

Adj

1. Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
2. resistant to being put to use, stiff, stubborn (as for example a rope or a screw).

Concepts

wick

fuse

candlewick

tinder

taper

lamp wick

fuze

touch

lead

marrow

pith

staple

stuffing

cord

tampon

creek

inlet

town

village

hamlet

dairy farm

close

lantern wick

fusse

filament

mantle

lamp

bosom

heart

nucellus

brand

igniter

kindling

touchwood

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɪk/

Etymology

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From Middle English weke, wicke (“wick”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”).
Compare West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”), Dutch wiek (“wing; propeller, blade; wick”), German Wieche (“wisp; wick”).