lucifer match
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We were engaged in our last lecture in considering the various methods that have been adopted from early times for obtaining fire, and we left off at the invention of the lucifer match.
From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott
We have in this electrical torch a substitute—partial substitute, I ought to say—for the lucifer match.
From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott
The man was kneeling before the stove and was in the very act of striking a lucifer match when I arrived.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie
The former may be obtained by burning a little sulphur or a sulphured lucifer match under the perforations of a killing box of the pattern described, and the latter—well, every smoker knows that.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.
Con′greve-match, a kind of lucifer match, invented by Congreve.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
