Citations:wickmaker

English citations of wickmaker

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  • 1837, New-York Register and City Directory for the sixty-second year of American independence, page 494:
    Piggot Samuel, watchmaker 215½ Hudson
    Piggott Augusta wickmaker 159 Grand
  • 1986, Nosson Scherman, Meir Zlotowitz, The Mishnah, volume 2, part 2, page 90:
    [...] apparently assumes that the Talmud does not totally reject that there was a wickmaker’s office.
  • 1991, Robert H. Moore, The Richmond Fayette, Hampden, Thomas, and Blount's Lynchburg Artillery, page 143:
    Occupation: Wickmaker? Enl. 4/23/61. 3rd Sgt. (10/31/61). Discharged as 4th Sgt. 1 1/1/61, by order Gen. Johnson. Age 36, 5'6", fair complexion, brown hair, grey eyes. D. 4/30/72. Buried at Presbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg, no marker, [...]
  • 1995, Annals of Iraqi Jewry (Ḳehilot Yiśraʼel, ʻIraḳ), page 115:
    [...] and made thousands of wicks which she sent to synagogues and to the tombs of Sheikh Isaac Gaon, Ezra the Scribe, and Ezekiel the prophet. She was renowned throughout the city as [...] Sarah the wickmaker.