"candle-end" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "candle-ends",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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      "expansion": "candle-end (plural candle-ends)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 50",
          "text": "They put a stock of candle-ends into the lantern, hung the latter to the off-side of the load, and directed the horse onward, walking at his shoulder at first during the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The remnant of a candle which has been mostly burned."
      ],
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          "remnant",
          "remnant"
        ],
        [
          "candle",
          "candle"
        ],
        [
          "burn",
          "burn"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "candle-end"
}

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    {
      "form": "candle-ends",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "candle-end (plural candle-ends)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 50",
          "text": "They put a stock of candle-ends into the lantern, hung the latter to the off-side of the load, and directed the horse onward, walking at his shoulder at first during the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "The remnant of a candle which has been mostly burned."
      ],
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        [
          "remnant",
          "remnant"
        ],
        [
          "candle",
          "candle"
        ],
        [
          "burn",
          "burn"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "candle-end"
}