Term: wick: a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
Candidate hypernym: cord: a line made of twisted fibers or threads → 1
Candidate hypernym: fool's errand: a fruitless mission → 0
Candidate hypernym: gunite: a mixture of cement and sand and water that is sprayed on a surface under pneumatic pressure → 0
Candidate hypernym: narration: (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth → 0
Candidate hypernym: prolixity: boring verbosity → 0
Candidate hypernym: mid-january: the middle part of January → 0
Candidate hypernym: margin call: a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement → 0
Candidate hypernym: latrodectus: venomous spiders → 0
Candidate hypernym: nip: a small drink of liquor → 0
Candidate hypernym: protection: the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition → 0
Candidate hypernym: alarm: a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event → 0