† candle-staffn.
Obsolete.
A candlestick; the main stem or shaft of a branched candlestick.
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candlestickc970
candle-staffc1000
stander1325
chandelabrec1430
canstick1546
stick1547
candelabrum1876
torchère1910
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) v. 15 Ne hi ne ælað hyra loeht-fæt [L. lucernam] and hit under cyfe settað, ac ofer candelstæf [L. candelabrum].
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 326 Candelabrum, candelstæf.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxv. 33 Six ȝerdes, that ben to be brouȝt forth out of the candelstaf.
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