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Kitchen match   /kˈɪtʃən mætʃ/   Listen
Kitchen match

noun
1.
A wooden friction match that will light on any granular surface; useful to light wood or gas stoves.





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"Kitchen match" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sack of tobacco and paper back into his pocket and took out a wooden kitchen match. He scraped it to life on the sole of his shoe and applied the flame to the tip of the cigarette. He puffed it into life and threw the match away. It burned for a few moments in the moist grass, then went out. A thin trail of smoke rose from it, and then ...
— Texas Week • Albert Hernhuter
... point Tomboy Taylor fished another Pittsburgh stogie out of her hundred dollar handbag, bit off the end with a quick nibble of even, pearly-white teeth, and stuffed the cigar in between the arched lips. She scratched a big kitchen match on the seat of her skirt after raising one shapely thigh to stretch the cloth. She puffed the stogie into light and became transformed from a beauty into a hag. My mind swore; it was like painting a mustache on the ...
— The Big Fix • George Oliver Smith


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