wickmaker

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English

Etymology

From wick +‎ maker.

Pronunciation

Noun

wickmaker (plural wickmakers)

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