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Slow match

noun

Match or fuse made to burn slowly and evenly.

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"Slow match" Quotes from Famous Books

... said Ken. 'Hardly that. But what about setting off this little lot? My notion is this. If we could put a slow match to the powder and then clear out and get down to the mouth of the water-course before it goes off, I believe those loafers down on the beach would all come running up here to see what had happened. That would give us our chance to collar a ...

— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges

... intensely cold. They learned a lesson, however, from their forlorn friends, the Root Diggers, which they subsequently found of great service in their wintry wanderings. They frequently observed them to be furnished with long ropes, twisted from the bark of the wormwood. This they used as a slow match, carrying it always lighted. Whenever they wished to warm themselves, they would gather together a little dry wormwood, apply the match, and in an instant ...

— The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Digested From His Journal • Washington Irving

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