snuffer

See also: Snuffer

English

A snuffer.

snuff +‎ -er

snuffer (plural snuffers)

A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.
- 1731 (date written, published 1745), Jonathan Swift, “Directions to Servants”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XVI, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC:
  If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.
A person who uses snuff (the tobacco product).
The common porpoise.
The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).

candle snuffer — see candle snuffer