lucifer match

American  

noun

1. friction match.

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Etymology

Origin of lucifer match

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

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lucifer match

We were engaged in our last lecture in considering the various methods that have been adopted from early times for obtaining fire, and we left off at the invention of the lucifer match.

From The Story of a Tinder-box by Tidy, Charles Meymott

To freeze to death merely because he did not have a dry lucifer match?

From The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

The former may be obtained by burning a little sulphur or a sulphured lucifer match under the perforations of a killing box of the pattern described, and the latter—well, every smoker knows that.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.

Gazing toward the point, she observed a dim glow in the darkness, such as might have been made by the reflection of a lucifer match.

From The Great Cattle Trail by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

In the dreadful noise then prevailing it was no more heard than the fizz of a lucifer match.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward