| 单词 | card match |
| 释义 | > as lemmascard match card match n. †(a) a strip of card or thin wooden spill dipped in melted sulphur so as to be easily ignited with a flint, and used to light candles, lamps, or fuel; also figurative (obsolete); (b) U.S. a friction match joined at its base to others in a strip, (also) a bookmatch (now rare). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > match, spill, or taper for lighting wax tapera1398 match1519 brimstone match1594 card match1654 spunk1755 light1787 spill1821 lighter1828 candle-paper1829 fidibus1829 Promethean1829 sulphur-match1830 pipelight1842 candle-lighter1855 kitchen match1862 spiller1936 1654 Mercurius Fumigosus No. 6. 45 The Thames last Night had like to have been miraculously fired by a Girl that cry'd Card-matches, some that were washing at the sluice in seeking to quench the same, had their Members miserably burnt. 1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 102 Crying Chimney Sweep, Ay, or Card-Matches and Save-alls. 1737 H. Fielding Tom Thumb (ed. 3) ii. vi. 26 Where are those Eyes, those Cardmatches of Love. 1841 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 19 Aug. 4/3 (advt.) 100 gross Card Matches from the ‘American Friction Match Company,’ just received and for sale at factory prices. 1946 Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News 16 Nov. 4/1 A book of card matches is, or may be, a pretty little thing. Useful..if you smoke. < as lemmas |
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