Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun plural An instrument for cropping the snuff of a candle, usually fitted with a close box to receive the burnt snuff and retain the smoke and smell. Also called pair of snuffers.
  • noun Same as snuff-dish, 2.
  • noun One who snuffs.
  • noun A snuffing-pig or porpoise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who snuffs.
  • noun (Zoöl.) The common porpoise.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle (candlesnuffer).
  • noun A person who uses snuff.
  • noun The common porpoise.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a cone-shaped implement with a handle; for extinguishing candles
  • noun a person who uses snuff
  • noun a person who snuffs out candles

Etymologies

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snuff +‎ -er

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Examples

  • There they prove that we are coals enclosed on all sides under a vast snuffer, which is the sky.

    The Clouds 2000

  • The need of some convenient tray or receptacle for the snuffers, not always over-clean when they had been used a few times, was met at first by what are known as snuffer stands made of wrought metal, and often very ornamental.

    Chats on Household Curios 1900

  • Mike Sudal/The Wall Street Journal Disposable long-reach butane lighters • Disposable long-reach butane lighters—perfect for candles and fireplaces—and a long-handled brass candle snuffer to extinguish flames.

    Ask Teri Teri Agins 2011

  • Their consumption was limited, though: their candlesticks and candle snuffer were copper, not silver.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • The moxa stick with its tinfoil snuffer sat in a puddle of water, the smell of wet ash in the room.

    After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010

  • Folding the tinfoil into a long rectangle, he rolled the stick of moxa inside it to make a “snuffer.”

    After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010

  • It was eerie inside the now-empty church; only a cleric remained, extinguishing the candles with a long silver snuffer.

    Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009

  • It was eerie inside the now-empty church; only a cleric remained, extinguishing the candles with a long silver snuffer.

    Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009

  • Ebenezer Scrooge extinguishes the Ghost of Christmas Past with his snuffer and was shot up like a firework.

    The Snow Queen is One of Disney's Next Hand-Drawn Films « FirstShowing.net 2009

  • Coincidentally, most of the scenes used in Carol's marketing are from this last group, like when Scrooge zooms across England with the Ghost of Christmas Past, rockets into the sky on a giant candle snuffer, or snowboards on an icicle.

    Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol (3D) -- Don't Get Scrooged 2009

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  • "An instrument for cropping the snuff of a candle, usually fitted with a close box to receive the burnt snuff and retain the smoke and smell. Also called pair of snuffers." --CD&C

    April 19, 2012