kitchen match

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   a wooden friction match that will light on any granular surface; useful to light wood or gas stoves

   Broadermatch

Questions about kitchen match

What does kitchen match mean?

kitchen match means "a wooden friction match that will light on any granular surface; useful to light wood or gas stoves".

Is kitchen match a common word?

kitchen match is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.