How to pronounce“wick”in English
in May of 2009 the Telegraph, the British newspaper the Telegraph, actually started publishing the unexpurgated records and they were leaked to them by a a guy named John
Wick who is a former SAS officer who is actually the intermediary for an anonymous source.
We don't know who that person was, we believe it's somebody who was actually on the staff of this redaction unit. Um, and Heather Brooke, who was the journalist who was doing all these
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Definitions of “wick”
A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.
“Trim the wick fairly short, so that the flame does not smoke.”
A braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melted tallow or wax, or oil) at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame.
“There liues vvithin the very flame of loue / A kind of weeke or ſnufe that vvill abate it, […]”
Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
“The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.”
Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.