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Scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candlewick
Answer for the clue "Scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candlewick ", 8 letters:
snuffers
Word definitions for snuffers in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candlewick
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of snuffer English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snuffers \Snuff"ers\, n. pl. An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.
Usage examples of snuffers.
This den was lighted by one candle stuck in the neck of a broken bottle, and as there were no snuffers Bassi's wife snuffed it cleverly with her finger and thumb, wiping her hand on the table-cloth after throwing the burnt wick on the floor.
But it was just a gift shop selling overprecious reproductions at outrageous prices-brass candle snuffers at $28, reproduction apothecary jars at $35, that sort of thing.
He made the rounds with his snuffers, and resorted at last to his cosy living-room, leaving the shop lit only through a skylight-by the far-off gleam of four crucial conjunct planets wheeling downward from the zenithal line.