Roman Candle
English
editVerb
editRoman Candle (third-person singular simple present Roman Candles, present participle Roman Candling, simple past and past participle Roman Candled)
- Alternative form of Roman-candle
- 2002, Eric Anderson, The Man Who Cried Orange, page 239:
- I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back.
- 2022, Chris Pratt, Four Brothers in the Pacific War:
- Some hit the rocky outcrops
Some fell into the sea
Some even 'Roman Candled'
(A parachutist I would never be)