igniter
- n a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
- n a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
- Police now say an incendiary device -- a glass jar filled with flammable liquid and fitted with an external igniter -- apparently went off in the lap of a passenger in the sixth car.
- A man at the control board pushed a switch, setting off the rocket's igniter.
- The rest is mixed with fuel and fired by a small flame that burns in the shelter of the conical igniter.