Definitions
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- adjective That does not have a
wick .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In other types of so-called wickless stoves, the burners are equipped with asbestos or other incombustible material.
School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
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The world's most famous collection of wickless candles announced: "We proactively encourage our visitors to interact with the waxworks should they so choose."
We've always found Hitler hilarious – the alternative is much more odious | David Mitchell 2011
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Commentators compared him to Lurch from The Addams Family, "Herman Munster doing a bad Ronald Reagan impression," and "a big, orange, waxy, wickless candle."
Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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One decent feed of picnic fodder and he's about as useless as a wickless candle.
HH 330 Miss Snark 2006
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A few moments later, when M was processing in and all eyes (except mine, I guess) were on her, the wedding coordinator ran up and tried to light the wickless candle.
trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2004
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Also, they have developed pressurized and unpressurized lanterns as well as a wickless stove that will run on aqueous alcohol taken directly from the still.
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Such stoves are of two types, those in which cotton wicks are used, as in oil lamps, and those which are wickless, the former being generally considered more convenient and satisfactory than the latter.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
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The arrangement of a wickless kerosene stove is much the same as the one just described, but it is so constructed that the oil, which is also stored in a tank at the side, flows into what is called a burner bowl and burns from this bowl up through a perforated chimney, the quantity of oil used being regulated by a valve attached to each bowl.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
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In some stoves, especially those of the wickless type, the burners are so constructed that the flame can rise to only a certain height.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
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There are two types of kerosene stoves, viz., wick and wickless stoves.
School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
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