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Snuffers

Snuffers \Snuff"ers\, n. pl. An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.

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snuffers

n. (plural of snuffer English)

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snuffers

n. scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candlewick

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.