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noun
Touch-paper  n.  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Touch-paper" Quotes from Famous Books



... business level. Nicholas made no reply until the fire of his pipe was established, while he stood in the water quite as if he were on land, supporting himself by nothing more than a gentle movement of his feet, while the glow of the touch-paper lit his round face and yellow leather skull-cap. "In coorse I has," he said at last, blowing a roll of smoke along the gleaming surface; "over to yon ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore



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