wick

Meanings

1. 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.
2. Synonym of wicking (“the material of which wicks (etymology 1, noun sense 1) are made”).
3. Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action; specifically (medicine), a strip of gauze placed in a wound, etc., to absorb fluids.
4. Often in dip one's wick: the penis.

1. Of a material (especially a textile): to convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
2. Of a material: to convey or draw off liquid by capillary action.
3. Chiefly followed by through or up: of a liquid: to move by capillary action through a porous material.

1. A hamlet or village; also, a town.
2. A farm; specifically, a dairy farm.
3. An enclosed piece of land; a close.

1. Synonym of quick (“alive, living; also, active, lively”).

1. A maggot.
2. The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
3. The part of the root of a weed that remains viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
4. Life; also, liveliness.

1. A angle or corner; specifically, a corner of the eye or mouth.
2. Short for wick-tooth (“a canine tooth”).
3. A grove; also, a hollow.

1. A shot where the played bowl or stone touches a stationary bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; a cannon.
2. Synonym of port (“a narrow opening between other players' bowls or stones wide enough for a delivered bowl or stone to pass through”).

1. To strike (a stationary bowl or stone) with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.
2. To strike a stationary bowl or stone with one's own bowl or stone just enough that the former changes direction; to cannon.

1. An inlet, such as a creek or small bay.

1. A basket made of wickers (“flexible branches or twigs of a plant such as willow woven together”); a creel.
2. Wickers collectively; also, synonym of wickerwork (“wickers woven together”).

1. A town in north-eastern Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND3650).
2. A river in Caithness, Highland council area that flows through the town into Wick Bay on the North Sea; in full, the Wick River.

1. A number of places in England:
2. A hamlet in Luppitt parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST1703).
3. An eastern suburb of Bournemouth in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset (OS grid ref SZ1951).
4. A village in Wick and Abson parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7072).
5. A hamlet in Brent Knoll parish, Somerset, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST3253)
6. A hamlet in Curry Rivel parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4026).
7. A hamlet in Stogursey parish, Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST2144).
8. A northern suburb of Littlehampton, Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0203).
9. A village in Downton parish, south Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1621).
10. A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO9645).
11. A village and community in Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9272).
12. An unincorporated community in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States.

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English wek, weke, wicke (“fibrous cord drawing fuel to flame of a candle, etc.; material used to make this object”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle; wick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”). It has been suggested that noun etymology 1, noun sense 2 (“penis”) is derived from Hampton Wick, used as rhyming slang for prick. If so, that sense should be placed under etymology 2. The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Dutch wiek (“wick; wing; blade, propeller”) * German Wieche (“wick; wisp”) * Swedish veke (“wick”) * West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”)

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