Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An implement with a bell-shaped cup and often a long slender handle, used to extinguish the flame of a candle.
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- noun Alternative form of
candle snuffer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an implement with a small cup at the end of a handle; used to extinguish the flame of a candle
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Examples
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It was a broomstick, to which she had attached an orange traffic cone, so that it looked like a giant candlesnuffer.
The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010
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And she took up the candlesnuffer and tugged in the mouth of the gargoyle mask on the wall eleven feet above.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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But Vanity was already hopping across the room to where the seven-foot-long candlesnuffer was kept.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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She motioned with one hand, pointed to the long-handled candlesnuffer which (we assumed) had been in the room since before the candelabra had been electrified.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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As a result, secrecy had come down like a candlesnuffer.
Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966
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The candlesnuffer, who perhaps may have been a bad wit, crossed the stage just after wards, and likewise bowed to the goddess.
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The candlesnuffer, who perhaps may have been a bad wit, crossed the stage just after wards, and likewise bowed to the goddess.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 11: Paris and Holland Giacomo Casanova 1761
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The candlesnuffer, who perhaps may have been a bad wit, crossed the stage just after wards, and likewise bowed to the goddess.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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So, around 1897, a Scots baronial cloak was pulled around Baledmund - with crenulations along the roofline, crowsteps on the gables, a candlesnuffer tower and several cantilevered lookouts from which to repel would-be attackers.
gangerh commented on the word candlesnuffer
I know a bold soul who, unplanned, 'll
Grab the wick when he puts out a candle.
But my fingers would suffer
If used as a snuffer—
I guess I'll use one with a handle.
(Sheila B. Blume)
May 15, 2009