A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
A small light.
A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
Someone who works with tape or tapes.
One who operates a tape machine.
A slender wax candle.
A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
To diminish gradually.
To become thinner or narrower at one end.
To make thinner or narrower at one end.
(of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.
Tapered; narrowing to a point.
A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre/fiber, 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.
(Usually plural) The parts of weed roots that remain viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
A farm, especially a dairy farm.
A corner of the mouth or eye.
A maggot.
The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
The penis.
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.
A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
resistant to being put to use, stiff, stubborn (as for example a rope or a screw).
Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
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.
To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.