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/frˈɪkʃən mætʃ/ Listen

Friction match

noun

Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction. Synonyms: lucifer, match. "As long you've a lucifer to light your fag"

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... had begun with the embryonic reaper, while both the bicycle and the automobile were heralded in primitive prototypes. The gigantic expansion of the iron and steel industry was foreshadowed in the change from wood to coal in the smelting furnaces. The sewing-machine had brought with it, like the friction match, one of the most profound influences in modifying domestic life, and making it different from that of ...

— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

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Words linked to "Friction match" : lighter, fusee, igniter, book matches, kitchen match, match, light, ignitor, matchstick, fuzee, lucifer, slow match, safety match