touch-paper

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noun

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

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touchpaper gun-paper gunpaper fuse portfire quick match touchbox touch-needle patch firecracker gunpowder firestriker fusee pipe-light touch phataka

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