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单词 rag wick
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rag wick
rag wick n. a wick made of rag; (formerly also) †a candle with such a wick (obsolete).
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1529 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 6 At thai sell the pund thairof [sc. candle]..for vj d. the rag weyk and v d. the lib. the hardis weyk.
1633 Dumbarton Burgh Rec. (1860) 42 Candill 4sh pound, when maid with tow wik, and fourtie pennies when rag wik.
1882 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 1 Mar. An old fashioned lard lamp with a rag wick.
1927 C. M. Russell Trails plowed Under 159 In the long winter nights their light was coal oil lamps or candles—sometimes they were forced to use a ‘bitch’, which was a tin cup filled with bacon grease and a twisted rag wick.
2001 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 5 Sept. 5 A beer bottle with petrol inside and a rag wick was found in a women's toilet.
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