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tinder-box
n. (alternative spelling of tinder box English)
Usage examples of "tinder-box".
The duchess handed me a small tinder-box to enable me to light a waxcandle, and she went away with Camille.
Then he peaceably tapped out the dottle of his meerschaum, refilled it from a twist of coarse paper, and lit it with a German tinder-box.
He gives me his handkerchief with his bit of dinner in it and a tinder-box he had about him, which I stow away in my apron pocket, and I show the plantation a clean pair of heels, I can tell you, adding to my list of crimes that most heinous: escape from bondage.