touch-paper

See also: touchpaper

English

Noun

touch-paper (plural touch-papers)

1. a strip of paper impregnated with nitre, used as a fuse for firing gunpowder, fireworks etc.

Translations

a strip of impregnated paper used as a fuse

• French: papier nitraté m
• Hungarian: gyutacs (hu)
• Serbo-Croatian: papirnati fitilj