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Definition of Firelighter
1. Noun. (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire.
Definition of Firelighter
1. Noun. small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firelighter
Literary usage of Firelighter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Romance of Savage Life: Describing the Life of Primitive Man, His by George Francis Scott Elliot (1908)
"... FIRE Fire kindled everywhere—Pithecanthropus and a bamboo jangle-fire— The
bamboo firelighter—The two-stick method known everywhere— Improvements—Sacred ..."
2. Loftus's inland revenue almanack and official directory (1861)
"... Newry Clarke, Samuel, firelighter, Chief Ü. Clarke, Thos., Newport Dis., Worcester
Clarke ... Mary, firelighter, Chief Offi. Cogan, Hugh, Inverness 2 D, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"A boy who appeared to believe friction as something tangible, perhaps a sort of
newfangled firelighter, scribbled: "Friction is caused by the rubbing ..."
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