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firelighter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
firelighter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A redundant copy of the first issue of Witness had been screwed up and used as a firelighter.
▪ Pine resin, collected by tapping, dried to lumps that made brilliant firelighters.
▪ Uncontained, cordite makes a very good firelighter.
▪ You have not put any firelighters in.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
firelighter

firelighter \firelighter\ n. (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire.

Wiktionary
firelighter

n. small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires.

WordNet
firelighter

n. (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire

Wikipedia
Firelighter

Firelighters are small solid fuel tablets sold as consumer products and designed to replace kindling in starting a fire. Firelighters are typically used to start wood or coal fire in homes. However, they can also be used alone as fuel in a specially-designed portable stoves.

Firelighters are given the UN number 2623 for dangerous goods and hazardous substances and defined as "Firelighters; solid with flammable liquid."

Usage examples of "firelighter".

Went down with me armory of righteousness and a packet of firelighters, jemmied the place open, they were clean as a whistle.

They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat and recycled as firelighters.