wickmaker

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UK/ˈwɪkmeɪkə/

noun

Someone who makes wicks.

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Meanings

nounwickmaker (plural wickmakers)

plural wickmakers

  1. uncommonSomeone who makes wicks.

    She was renowned throughout the city as […] Sarah the wickmaker.

    1995, Annals of Iraqi Jewry (Ḳehilot Yiśraʼel, ʻIraḳ), page 115
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    Piggot Samuel, watchmaker 215½ Hudson Piggott Augusta wickmaker 159 Grand

    1837, New-York Register and City Directory for the sixty-second year of American independence, page 494

    […] apparently assumes that the Talmud does not totally reject that there was a wickmaker’s office.

    1986, Nosson Scherman, Meir Zlotowitz, The Mishnah, volume 2, part 2, page 90

Origin

From wick + maker.

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APA

wickmaker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wickmaker

MLA

“wickmaker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wickmaker. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wickmaker,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wickmaker.

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