English[edit]
Assorted reproduction firestrikers typical of Roman to medieval period
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
fire + striker
firestriker (plural firestrikers)
- A piece of high-carbon steel used for striking a spark, usually kept in a tinderbox with flint and tinder.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
piece of steel used for striking a spark
- Albanian: uror (sq) m, masat (sq) m
- Arabic: مِقْدَح (miqdaḥ)
- Armenian: հրահան (hy) (hrahan), չախմախ (hy) (čʻaxmax)
- Finnish: karkku, tulusrauta (fi), tulirauta (fi)
- French: briquet (fr) m
- Georgian: კვესი (ḳvesi)
- German: Feuerstahl, Feuerschläger, Schlageisen, Feuereisen (dated), Feuerschurf (dated), Pinkeisen (dated)
- Italian: acciarino (it) m
- Macedonian: огнило (ognilo)
- Ottoman Turkish: چاقماق (çakmak)
- Portuguese: eslabão m
- Romanian: amnar (ro) n
- Russian: креса́ло (ru) (kresálo), огни́во (ru) (ognívo)
- Spanish: eslabón (es) m
- Venetian: batifògo m
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Further reading[edit]
Fire striker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 