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:
“You can much sooner dry you by such a fire as you can make in the woods than in anybody’s kitchen, the fireplace is so much larger, and wood so much more abundant.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)