pipe-light

English

Noun

pipe-light (plural pipe-lights)

1. A piece of screwed-up paper used for lighting a pipe for smoking.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     Dozens of empty bottles clinked together in corners to the rolling of the ship. One of the doctor’s medical books lay open on the table, half of the leaves gutted out, I suppose, for pipe-lights.