snuffer

Example Sentences

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To avoid blowing ash all over the candle, extinguish the flame with a snuffer, or dip the wick into the melted wax, then straighten it out.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022

No snuffer, Judge Stearne likes to smoke his pipe when out of the Orphans' Court, philosophize about his work.

From Time Magazine Archive

“When you’ve got something special like we do, how can you hide it under a bushel? How can you snuff it under a snuffer? Why, Chlo-Chlo, I want to shout it to the wondering world!”

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

He put out one more candle, then set down his silver snuffer and hobbled toward her with a pronounced limp.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Do out appears in the name of the little instrument something like a pair of snuffer which was formerly used to extinguish the candles and called a "Doute."

From Bacon is Shake-Speare by Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin