Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction.
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Examples for "match "
1 We've come a long way obviously since the Armagh match last year.
2 What he said Speaking after the match de Villiers said: Extremely happy.
3 However, they said they did get good striations for a future match .
4 I have heard people say this is the 'return match ' , he said.
5 It was great match , and I think good start of this week.
1 There was coal-smoke and a taste of lucifer matches in the air.
2 I struck a lucifer match and held it to the boy's face.
3 Taking a lucifer match in her hand she approached the fuse.
4 The old man struck a lucifer match and lit the gas.
5 She groped her way to the taper and the lucifer matches.
1 Guns were flint-locks, tinder-boxes were used until the manufacture of the friction match .
2 I wonder how many of my readers have reflected that it is just one hundred years since the friction match was invented.
3 The Equal Righters promptly relighted them with loco-foco or friction matches and continued the meeting.
4 At this juncture, the boy suddenly recalled that he had some friction matches in his possession.
5 A Good and Cheap Preparation to Put on Friction Matches . - The igniting composition varies with different makers.
6 The First Steam Railway, 1830; the Railway Craze; the Friction Match , 1834.
7 To relight it under existing circumstances, in an age when friction matches were unknown, was practically impossible.
8 We 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 . "
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.
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.
12 The lucifer or friction matches appeared in about 1827, but successful phosphorus matches were first made in about 1833.
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