roman-candle

English

Verb

roman-candle (third-person singular simple present roman-candles, present participle roman-candling, simple past and past participle roman-candled)

1. Alternative form of Roman-candle
   • 2007, Michael Abrams, Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers:

     Their parachutes collapsed and together they roman-candled into the ground.

   • 2011, Tim Ramsden, Backpacking Beyond Boundaries: A South African's Travels:

     In 1943 when Dad was at school in Shropshire, he saw two US planes collide, one pilot managed to bail out but unfortunately he roman-candled with the school children watching it.

   • 2017, John Goldsmith, Accidental Agent: Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance:

     One of the paratrooper's 'chutes had roman-candled – failed to open – and he had plunged into the ground only fifty yards from where we were standing.