candlestub

plural candlestubs · alternative candle-stub

1. The end of a candle that has mostly burned away.

   He looked down at the guttered candlestub.

   1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 3

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   In the bedroom a brown candlestub was on the table between the beds of Warren and Ina.

   1933, George Weller, Not to Eat, Not for Love, page 303303

   You warm the candlestub between your hands and smell it—real beeswax.

   2019, Iraida H. López, Eliana S. Rivero, Let's Hear Their Voices, page 60