do you keep a lampwick about the house?

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you're in my book if you do.

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― erik, Friday, 10 January 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that a lampwick? And even if it's not, what is the function of a lampwick? This probably sounds silly but I had in mind some sort of Dickensian lighting apparatus.

― Gordon (Gordon), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

To put in your oil lamp to make light with. Fiat lux etc etc.

― alix (alix), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Lampwick is to oil lamp as wick is to candle - the stringy bit that you light. Oil lamps usually have a wee wheel you can twiddle to move the wick up and down, to alter the size (and brightness) of the flame and compensate for the wick burning away.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

They usually last for more than two days and less than four, hence the term three day wick-end.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 10 January 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

he was sometimes called Charles Wick-ens I guess?

― erik, Friday, 10 January 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm impressed by all this knowledge. In fact, it makes me want to go out and by my own oil lamp.

― Gordon (Gordon), Friday, 10 January 2003 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

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