chipper vs wick

chipper

adj
  • Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful. 

verb
  • To chirp or chirrup. 

noun
  • A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper. 

  • A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods. 

  • A golf club for making chip shots. 

  • Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood). 

  • An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user. 

  • A machine that chips potatoes into pieces that are ready to be fried and made into chips. 

  • A player who chips the ball. 

  • A company that manufactures potato chips/potato crisps. 

  • A deep frier. 

wick

adj
  • Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick. 

  • resistant to being put to use, stiff, stubborn (as for example a rope or a screw). 

noun
  • (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 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. 

  • A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones. 

verb
  • 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. 

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