candlestub

noun

candlestub

noun

Etymology From candle + stub.

1

The end of a candle that has mostly burned away.

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:
He looked down at the guttered candlestub.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 3:

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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:

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