[
UK
/fˈaɪəlaɪtɐ/
]
NOUN
- (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire
How To Use firelighter In A Sentence
- Gathering a few handfuls of straw from a ruined mattress and a candle stub for a firelighter, she dug in her pack for a couple of strike-anywhere matches and managed to get a small blaze going, astonished that the ancient peat was still dry enough to burn. FALSE MERMAID
- You knelt at the grate, laying sticks and firelighters and scrunched-up newspaper.
- I call forth the firelighter but the arsonist breaks through and he is I. Pablo neruda | we are many « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
- All you toto touch a match to this firelighter and your fire will start.
- She knelt down to poke the firelighter under the wooden kindling and then leaned forward as she lit a match. Lace
- It's the conversational firelighter that sees you through a sputtering 0-0 draw at The Hawthorns. How I acquired my pub quiz technique | Emma John
- Reports suggest that after speaking to the FT Beverly Hughes was heard to say to her advisor, "have you got a spare tenner I can use as a firelighter please? Archive 2007-03-01
- Kindling, little sugar cube of firelighter, two logs from a plastic bag. Times, Sunday Times
- I felt so ill, I felt cold and dirty and all I could smell was the firelighters I'd crushed in my hands.
- The branches were deliberately broken off a five-year-old Chestnut tree and on a number of occassions fires have been lit on the roundabout using firelighters.