wax jack

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noun

a device for melting sealing wax, having a waxed wick fed through a plate from a reel.

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Also called taper jack.

Words nearby wax jack

wax flower, wax gourd, waxing, waxing moon, wax insect, wax jack, waxleaf privet, wax light, wax moth, wax museum, wax myrtle

How to use wax jack in a sentence

Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.
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Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.
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But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.
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Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.
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Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
Strathland would bundle me out in ten minutes if anything happened to Jack.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
She is immensely rich, one of the ablest political women in London, and Jack is desperately in love with her.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton