>Excuse me? It's a candle SNUFFER! :->
Dollars to doughnuts it's a candle EXTINGUISHER.
A candle snuffer is a pair of scissors with a box welded to one blade to catch the snuff, and it's been out of style ever since the invention of the self-snuffing braided wick.
-- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
Yes, well, we've always called the long handled items candle snuffers. The item you describe we've called
wick trimmers. :->
Just goes to show how interesting language is, huh?
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