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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1931
The cave had run short of candles once already, and the gloom . . . had been defeated only by Hornby's ingenuity. He devised a "bitch" from a tin-can top and fox fat, with a piece of shoelace for a wick.
1961
. . . during the long winter evenings "office" work was done by candlelight and sometimes by nothing better than a "bitch" -- a wick in a shallow tin of tallow.