- a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.
- to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
- a narrow opening in the field, bounded by other players' stones.
- a farm, especially a dairy farm.
- a village; hamlet.
- a town in the Highland region, in N Scotland: herring fisheries.
- a cord or band of loosely twisted or woven fibres, as in a candle, cigarette lighter, etc, that supplies fuel to a flame by capillary action
- to cause irritation to a person
- a village or hamlet
- lively or active
- alive or crawling
- a town in N Scotland, in Highland, at the head of Wick Bay (an inlet of the North Sea). Pop: 7333 (2001)
