Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A primer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
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Examples
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The room is meagrely furnished, with a table on which are powder-flask, touch-box, etc., for charging guns, a stool or two, and an open keg of powder.
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920
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