firestriker

English

Assorted reproduction firestrikers typical of Roman to medieval period

Alternative forms

• fire striker

Etymology

fire +‎ striker

Noun

firestriker (plural firestrikers)

1. A piece of high-carbon steel used for striking a spark, usually kept in a tinderbox with flint and tinder.

Synonyms

• firesteel

Translations

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

Further reading

• Fire striker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia