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wickmaker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈwɪkmeɪkə/ (UK)

Etymology

From wick + maker.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) Someone who makes wicks.
   • She was renowned throughout the city as […] Sarah the wickmaker. 1995, Annals of Iraqi Jewry (Ḳehilot Yiśraʼel, ʻIraḳ), page 115
   • Piggot Samuel, watchmaker 215½ Hudson Piggott Augusta wickmaker 159 Grand 1837, New-York Register and City Directory for the sixty-second year of American independence, page 494:
   • […] apparently assumes that the Talmud does not totally reject that there was a wickmaker’s office. 1986, Nosson Scherman, Meir Zlotowitz, The Mishnah, volume 2, part 2, page 90:

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