A fire striker (AKA Fire Steel) is a mis-named piece of knife-hard steel from which sparks are struck by the sharp edge of chert or similar rock. (To create confusion, ferrocerium rods, described below, are also called "fire steels.")
Famous quotes containing the word fire:
“It began with begging.
In the beginning it was all God’s icebox
and everyone ate raw fish or animals
and there was no fire at night to dance to,
no fire at day to cook by.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)