Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A composition of inflammable materials, as pitch and sawdust, used for kindling fires.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun small block of
flammable substance , typicallysawdust andwax combined, used to light fires.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire
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Examples
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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.
The Fear Factor 2007
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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.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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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.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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I call forth the firelighter but the arsonist breaks through and he is I.
pablo neruda | we are many « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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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?"
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Popularity in the 21st Century barbylon 2004
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She knelt down to poke the firelighter under the wooden kindling and then leaned forward as she lit a match.
Lace Shirley Conran 1982
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She knelt down to poke the firelighter under the wooden kindling and then leaned forward as she lit a match.
Lace Shirley Conran 1982
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She knelt down to poke the firelighter under the wooden kindling and then leaned forward as she lit a match.
Lace Shirley Conran 1982
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