swaling
English
Noun
swaling (plural swalings)
- Melted wax that runs down the edge of a candle.
- 1929, Archaeologia Cantiana (volume 41, page 68)
- Metal cups, or basins, were very generally employed in churches for catching the swalings of wax candles, wax being a commodity too valuable to be wasted.
- 1929, Archaeologia Cantiana (volume 41, page 68)
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