snuffer
IPA: snˈʌfɝ
noun
- A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.
- A person who uses snuff (the tobacco product).
- The common porpoise.
- The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).
- A surname from German.
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Examples of "snuffer" in Sentences
- There they prove that we are coals enclosed on all sides under a vast snuffer, which is the sky.
- The moxa stick with its tinfoil snuffer sat in a puddle of water, the smell of wet ash in the room.
- Their consumption was limited, though: their candlesticks and candle snuffer were copper, not silver.
- Folding the tinfoil into a long rectangle, he rolled the stick of moxa inside it to make a “snuffer.”
- Ebenezer Scrooge extinguishes the Ghost of Christmas Past with his snuffer and was shot up like a firework.
- It was eerie inside the now-empty church; only a cleric remained, extinguishing the candles with a long silver snuffer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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