canstick

C3A1N1S1T1I1C3K5

noun

A candlestick (candle holder).

Scrabble 16
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Meanings

nouncanstick (plural cansticks)

plural cansticks

  1. obsoleteA candlestick (candle holder).

    I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, / Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, / And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, / Nothing so much as mincing poetry.

    a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1, lines 125–128
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APA

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