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Definition of Friction match
1. Noun. Lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction. "As long you've a lucifer to light your fag"
Specialized synonyms: Fusee, Fuzee, Kitchen Match, Book Matches, Safety Match, Slow Match
Generic synonyms: Igniter, Ignitor, Light, Lighter
Terms within: Matchstick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Friction Match
Literary usage of Friction match
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 1795-1895. One Hundred Years of American Commerce ...: A History of American by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1895)
"The lucifer or improved friction-match succeeded them in 1833. The first patent
granted in the United States for a friction-match was to Alonzo D. Phillips, ..."
2. The Boys' and Girls' Readers: Teachers' Manual of Silent and Oral Reading by Emma Miller Bolenius (1919)
"... where other classes may enjoy them and be aroused to investigate. i THE LITTLE
friction match (PAGE 69) Eva March Tappan Supervised silent reading. ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1867)
"BURNING OF A friction match. First in importance is the intense affinity of
phosphorus for oxygen, as it is this property which makes a friction match ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"BURNING OF A friction match. First in importance is the intense affinity of
phosphorus for oxygen, as it is this property which makes a friction match ..."
5. The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend (1890)
"... stepping-stone to the production of the friction match." Thus do we approach
the period of the friction lucifer ; and now the Exhibition volume of 1852 ..."
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