Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun plural An instrument for cropping the snuff of a candle, usually fitted with a close box to receive the burnt snuff and retain the smoke and smell. Also called
pair of snuffers . - noun Same as
snuff-dish , 2. - noun One who snuffs.
- noun A snuffing-pig or porpoise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who snuffs.
- noun (Zoöl.) The common porpoise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device made to
extinguish (snuff out) acandle (candlesnuffer ). - noun A person who uses
snuff . - noun The common
porpoise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cone-shaped implement with a handle; for extinguishing candles
- noun a person who uses snuff
- noun a person who snuffs out candles
Etymologies
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Examples
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There they prove that we are coals enclosed on all sides under a vast snuffer, which is the sky.
The Clouds 2000
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The need of some convenient tray or receptacle for the snuffers, not always over-clean when they had been used a few times, was met at first by what are known as snuffer stands made of wrought metal, and often very ornamental.
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Mike Sudal/The Wall Street Journal Disposable long-reach butane lighters • Disposable long-reach butane lighters—perfect for candles and fireplaces—and a long-handled brass candle snuffer to extinguish flames.
Ask Teri Teri Agins 2011
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Their consumption was limited, though: their candlesticks and candle snuffer were copper, not silver.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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The moxa stick with its tinfoil snuffer sat in a puddle of water, the smell of wet ash in the room.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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Folding the tinfoil into a long rectangle, he rolled the stick of moxa inside it to make a “snuffer.”
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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It was eerie inside the now-empty church; only a cleric remained, extinguishing the candles with a long silver snuffer.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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It was eerie inside the now-empty church; only a cleric remained, extinguishing the candles with a long silver snuffer.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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Ebenezer Scrooge extinguishes the Ghost of Christmas Past with his snuffer and was shot up like a firework.
The Snow Queen is One of Disney's Next Hand-Drawn Films « FirstShowing.net 2009
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Coincidentally, most of the scenes used in Carol's marketing are from this last group, like when Scrooge zooms across England with the Ghost of Christmas Past, rockets into the sky on a giant candle snuffer, or snowboards on an icicle.
Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol (3D) -- Don't Get Scrooged 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word snuffer
"An instrument for cropping the snuff of a candle, usually fitted with a close box to receive the burnt snuff and retain the smoke and smell. Also called pair of snuffers." --CD&C
April 19, 2012