snaste

English

Noun

snaste (plural snastes)

  1. The burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle
    • 1626, Francis Bacon, Natural History, page 127
      Till some part of the candle was consumed, and the dust gathered about the snaste; but then it made the snaste big, and long, and to burn duskishly.
    • 1865, Edward FitzGerald, Works, page 426
      A coming letter is foretold by a projecting spark on the snaste.

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