Definition of "wax-end" [wax-end]

• Alternative spelling of wax end. (noun)

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• "Dakota deliberately took up a wax-end, rolled it, and squinted his eyes as he forced the end of the thread through the eye of the needle which he held in the other hand."
• "Then she unravelled her knitting: twisted her end of the yarn between finger and thumb -- like a cobbler twisting a wax-end -- and cast the end up towards the sky."
• ""She has," said the shoemaker, drawing his wax-end."