What is "sparker"

Usage examples of "sparker".

He went back and worked on his old sparker and its descendents, now that he was old.

And Sunday, if I have a little time, I may work on my sparker or my chestnut roaster.

Jewell had interrupted the downpilot before he could ask about sparkers, and now, because her feet had hurt, there was a live sparker in her house.

I thought about Pearl and Jack and how I was going to give Jewell the sparker at the beginning of the next shift, and wondered who I was copying.

He pulled a sparker from his inside pocket, cocked it back, and looked at me.

During the next sleeping-shift I hid the sparker between the mattress and the springs of my bed.

Carnie, talking to her in a low voice and clicking the sparker over and over again, as if he could not help himself.

He did not have his cigar with him, or his sparker, and he did not even speak to me.

For a moment she looked directly into the mirror with her blind eyes, and I willed Taber to click the sparker that I knew he was fingering so that Pearl would hear it and withdraw into her cage, safe and silent.

He handed the package to me again, and I took it, watching him put the jacket on, waiting for him to pat the sparker inside the pocket to make sure it was there.

Soon he will take out his cigar and put his thumb against the trigger of the sparker, and the sidons will go up one after the other, a string of lights.

But he had learned a thing or two as a wide-eyed Sparker initiate, before he dropped out.

I need a certain part to attach to the sparker, and I had to send to town for it.

I go to the main room, light the lamp with the sparker, keeping my back to the bedroom door.

She showed me the sparker used to ignite the propane and to reignite it quickly should the flame go out.