fetch candle
English
Etymology
See fetch (“wraith, apparition”).
Noun
fetch candle (plural fetch candles)
- A light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fetch candle under fetch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)