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View synonyms for friction match

friction match

noun

  1. a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.


friction match

noun

  1. a match that ignites as a result of the heat produced by friction when it is struck on a rough surface See also safety match
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of friction match1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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Example Sentences

But in that year Preschel had a factory in Vienna, Austria, for the manufacture of friction matches with phosphorus as the chief chemical.

Secured behind one of her ears was a cigarette, while a friction match protruded from the other, ready for use.

As there were no friction matches in those days, it was the custom to kindle a fire by striking sparks with a flint and steel into dry tinder-stuff.

Thucydides never had his works puffed in a newspaper, Virgil and Horace never poetized or lectured for a lyceum; Charlemagne never saw a locomotive, nor did St. Thomas Aquinas ever use a friction match.

This took a great deal of time and trouble, and Allin, seeing the necessity for friction matches, set about to make them, and succeeded.

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