Brewer's: Dip

(A). A tallow-chandler, one who makes or sells candles or “dips.” These candles are made by dipping into melted tallow the cotton which forms the wick. (Anglo-Saxon dippan to dip.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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