Wick: nf (word from the popular Latin micca, from the Greek muxa "lamp wick").
The word “wick” has several meanings:
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1. Cord, band, braid of cotton yarn, hemp, impregnated with fuel and burned by its free end, to obtain a long-lasting flame. The wick of an oil lamp.
Pinch, cut, blow a burnt wick.
2. Cord made of material that catches fire easily.
Tinder wick.
Wick of a mine (cord).
Fusing wick.
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