Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A match tipped with a compound which ignites by friction: the usual form of match in domestic use.
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Examples
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But they dearly love fire, and at night will always have it, if possible, even on the minutest scale, -- a mere handful of splinters, that seems hardly more efficacious than a friction-match.
Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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_estufa_ where, for centuries before the invention of the friction-match, the Indians kept their sacred fire -- fire made sacred through the difficulty of obtaining it or rekindling it when once extinguished -- and so watched day and night by sleepless sentinels.
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But they dearly love fire, and at night will always have it, if possible, even on the minutest scale, ” a mere handful of splinters, that seems hardly more efficacious than a friction-match.
Army Life in a Black Regiment Higginson, Thomas W 1869
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