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Definitions for Wicking

[1] material for wicks.
[2] a bundle or loose twist or braid of soft threads, or a woven strip or tube, as of cotton or asbestos, which in a candle, lamp, oil stove, cigarette lighter, or the like, serves to draw up the melted tallow or wax or the oil or other flammable liquid to be burned.
[3] to draw off (liquid) by capillary action.
[4] acting to move moisture by capillary action from the inside to the surface wicking fabric
[5] a cord or band of loosely twisted or woven fibres, as in a candle, cigarette lighter, etc, that supplies fuel to a flame by capillary action
[6] get on someone's wick British slang to cause irritation to a person
[7] archaic a village or hamlet
[8] lively or active
[9] alive or crawling a dog wick with fleas
[10] a town in N Scotland, in Highland, at the head of Wick Bay (an inlet of the North Sea). Pop: 7333 (2001)

Words nearby Wicking

wicker, wickerwork, wicket, wicket maiden, wicketkeeper, wicking, wickiup, wickliffe, wicklow, wickthing, wicopy

Origin of Wicking

1before 1000; Middle English wicke, weke, Old English wice, wēoc(e ); cognate with Middle Dutch wiecke, Middle Low German wêke, Old High German wiohha lint, wick (German Wieke lint); akin to Sanskrit vāgura noose

Other words from Wicking

wick·less , adjective

Word origin for Wicking

dialect variant of quick alive