wickmaker

Someone who makes wicks.

Noun

  1. Someone who makes wicks.
    • Piggot Samuel, watchmaker 215½ Hudson Piggott Augusta wickmaker 159 Grand - 1837, New-York Register and City Directory for the sixty-second year of American independence, page 494:
    • […] apparently assumes that the Talmud does not totally reject that there was a wickmaker’s office. - 1986, Nosson Scherman, Meir Zlotowitz, The Mishnah, volume 2, part 2, page 90:
    • She was renowned throughout the city as […] Sarah the wickmaker. - 1995, Annals of Iraqi Jewry (Ḳehilot Yiśraʼel, ʻIraḳ), page 115

Origin

From wick + maker.

Forms

wickmakers