OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8844

candlestick

/ˈkændəlˌstɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
candelero • cirial
A holder with a socket or spike for a candle.
Neither doe men light a candle, and put it vnder a bushell: but on a candlesticke, and it giueth light vnto all that are in the house.
Sorcerers and other practitioners of witchcraft used to make a variety of candlestick called the Hand of Glory, chiefly from the flesh of criminals[.]