wickmaker

English

Etymology

From wick +‎ maker.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkmeɪkə/

Noun

wickmaker (plural wickmakers)

1. (uncommon) Someone who makes wicks.
   • 1837, New-York Register and City Directory for the sixty-second year of American independence, page 494:

     Piggot Samuel, watchmaker 215½ Hudson
     Piggott Augusta wickmaker 159 Grand

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

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

   • 1995, Annals of Iraqi Jewry (Ḳehilot Yiśraʼel, ʻIraḳ), page 115:

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