wickmaker
nounUK /ˈwɪkmeɪkə/
Etymology From wick + maker.
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Uncommon Someone who makes wicks.
- Piggot Samuel, watchmaker 215½ Hudson Piggott Augusta wickmaker 159 Grand1837, 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:
1 more example
- She was renowned throughout the city as […] Sarah the wickmaker.1995, Annals of Iraqi Jewry (Ḳehilot Yiśraʼel, ʻIraḳ), page 115