What is the meaning of Sconce?

A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.

  1. A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.

A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.

A head or a skull.

A poll tax; a mulct or fine.

An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.

To impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.

During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to announce some (usually outrageous) deed such that anyone who has done it must drink; similar to I have never; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.

A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.

A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.

A squinch.

A fragment of a floe of ice.

A fixed seat or shelf.

to shut within a sconce; to imprison.

feminine plural of sconcio

Source: wiktionary.org