Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction.
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Examples for "match"
Examples for "match"
1We've come a long way obviously since the Armagh match last year.
2What he said Speaking after the match de Villiers said: Extremely happy.
3However, they said they did get good striations for a future match.
4I have heard people say this is the 'return match', he said.
5It was great match, and I think good start of this week.
1There was coal-smoke and a taste of lucifer matches in the air.
2I struck a lucifer match and held it to the boy's face.
3Taking a lucifer match in her hand she approached the fuse.
4The old man struck a lucifer match and lit the gas.
5She groped her way to the taper and the lucifer matches.
1Guns were flint-locks, tinder-boxes were used until the manufacture of the friction match.
2I wonder how many of my readers have reflected that it is just one hundred years since the friction match was invented.
3The Equal Righters promptly relighted them with loco-foco or friction matches and continued the meeting.
4At this juncture, the boy suddenly recalled that he had some friction matches in his possession.
5A Good and Cheap Preparation to Put on Friction Matches.-Theigniting composition varies with different makers.
6The First Steam Railway, 1830; the Railway Craze; the Friction Match, 1834.
7To relight it under existing circumstances, in an age when friction matches were unknown, was practically impossible.
8We had few steamboats, and no railroads, or telephones, or percussion-caps, or a tremendous press, or Darwinism, or friction matches.
9"I thought it was a card of friction matches."
10To-day friction matches are known throughout the area, although probably not one person in one hundred has ever owned a box of matches.
11There were no friction matches and not infrequently a child was sent on a flying visit to a neighbor's house to borrow fire.
12The lucifer or friction matches appeared in about 1827, but successful phosphorus matches were first made in about 1833.
Translations for friction match