Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A composition of inflammable materials, as pitch and sawdust, used for kindling fires.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire
Examples
“Failure to act against foreigners who are stretching public services, he added, would be handing a "firelighter" to Britain's small but rabidly anti-immigrant political party, the British National Party.”
“It's the conversational firelighter that sees you through a sputtering 0-0 draw at The Hawthorns.”
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“Gathering a few handfuls of straw from a ruined mattress and a candle stub for a firelighter, she dug in her pack for a couple of strike-anywhere matches and managed to get a small blaze going, astonished that the ancient peat was still dry enough to burn.”
“I call forth the firelighter but the arsonist breaks through and he is I.”
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“Reports suggest that after speaking to the FT Beverly Hughes was heard to say to her advisor, "have you got a spare tenner I can use as a firelighter please?”
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“She knelt down to poke the firelighter under the wooden kindling and then leaned forward as she lit a match.”
“He resumed it in our chambers, while I operated on the hearth with a firelighter.”
“ONCE a burning firelighter is placed against a tyre, it takes a few minutes for a car to ignite, giving the arsonist plenty of time to escape.”
“Liverpool fans need something quickly to replace those Torres 9 numbers, once the biggest selling replica in Premier League history, now of little more use than as a firelighter.”
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