swaling
English
Verb
swaling
- present participle of swale
Noun
swaling (plural swalings)
- Melted wax that runs down the edge of a candle.
- 1929, Archaeologia Cantiana (volume 41, page 68)
- Metal cups, or basins, were very generally employed in churches for catching the swalings of wax candles, wax being a commodity too valuable to be wasted.
- 1929, Archaeologia Cantiana (volume 41, page 68)
Anagrams
- Lawings, lawings, walings