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Congreve match
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English
Etymology
From en de Congreve, after Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet William Congreve, British rocket pioneer and administrator of the Imperial Continental Gas Association during the 1820s.
Noun
en chiefly _ historical en phosphorus match, a strike-anywhere friction match.
References
Congreve n
Edward Bidwell, Presidential Address, Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Vol. X, Part V (1920), p. 407.
en eponyms
en Phosphorus Fire Light sources