Get Free Checker

wick

[ US /ˈwɪk/ ]
[ UK /wˈɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
    the physician put a wick in the wound to drain it
  2. a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame

How To Use wick In A Sentence

  • I usually sqirt a drop or two on the front and back of my boots, and a few drops on a wick around the stand. i never used the buck pee though. i have used a couple of tarsal glands from a buck that my friend killed. had small buck circle the tree i hung it from a couple times. When to use What deer pee?
  • Three hours packed with a quick-fire century, a couple of bouncers, two-thirds of a hat-trick, a dropped catch, several bowled wickets and innumerable fours and sixers.
  • Man-of-the-match Hill snatched four quick wickets as the home side found themselves in disarray on 47-6.
  • In the midst of the church stood 12. waxe tapers of two yards long, and a fathom about in bignesse, and there stands a kettle full of waxe with about 100. weight, wherein there is alwayes the wicke of a candle burning, as it were a lampe which goeth not out day nor night. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
  • However, O'Kane's favourite pastime is hillwalking in the Wicklow hills.
  • His eight wickets came at a hefty price. Times, Sunday Times
  • Just before Chiswick Bridge he suddenly wrenched the wheel round to the right. Times, Sunday Times
  • After pulling the ball over midwicket, Cairns showed he was no one-trick pony.
  • So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Once upon a time, 12 young men were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother. Times, Sunday Times
View all