0 a small block of material that burns very easily and is used for helping to start wood or coal fires --
It is used as tinder (especially after being pounded flat, and boiled or soaked in a solution of nitre) and also used when smouldering as a portable firelighter.
The firemen and police inspected the ruins and found twenty bundles of inflammable material (firelighters) unburned lying about.
Her first few days in the shop are marred when she is caught by the police selling firelighters after closing time.
There was an operational requirement for a strategic firelighter.
However, they are currently very busy in light of firelighters' industrial action.
