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Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction.

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        Ús de friction match en anglès
        1
        Guns were flint-locks, tinder-boxes were used until the manufacture of the friction match.
        The Life of Abraham Lincoln
        2
        I wonder how many of my readers have reflected that it is just one hundred years since the friction match was invented.
        The Irish Times
        3
        The Equal Righters promptly relighted them with loco-foco or friction matches and continued the meeting.
        A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
        4
        At this juncture, the boy suddenly recalled that he had some friction matches in his possession.
        In the Pecos Country
        5
        A Good and Cheap Preparation to Put on Friction Matches.-Theigniting composition varies with different makers.
        Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful ...
        6
        The First Steam Railway, 1830; the Railway Craze; the Friction Match, 1834.
        The Leading Facts of English History
        7
        To relight it under existing circumstances, in an age when friction matches were unknown, was practically impossible.
        A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
        8
        We had few steamboats, and no railroads, or telephones, or percussion-caps, or a tremendous press, or Darwinism, or friction matches.
        Memoirs
        9
        "I thought it was a card of friction matches."
        The Yacht Club; or, The Young Boat-Builder
        10
        To-day friction matches are known throughout the area, although probably not one person in one hundred has ever owned a box of matches.
        The Bontoc Igorot
        11
        There were no friction matches and not infrequently a child was sent on a flying visit to a neighbor's house to borrow fire.
        Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1
        12
        The lucifer or friction matches appeared in about 1827, but successful phosphorus matches were first made in about 1833.
        Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization
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