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n. - An implement with a small cup at the end of a handle.

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  • As a result, secrecy had come down like a candlesnuffer.
  • But Vanity was already hopping across the room to where the seven-foot-long candlesnuffer was kept.
  • And she took up the candlesnuffer and tugged in the mouth of the gargoyle mask on the wall eleven feet above.
  • It was a broomstick, to which she had attached an orange traffic cone, so that it looked like a giant candlesnuffer.
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