A device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires.
Synonyms:lighter, light, ignitor.
Ignitor n. (Written also igniter) One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.
... turned twice before Koa arrived. He had a coil of wire slung over his arm, and he carried the dynamo in one hand and an igniter in the other, the two connected ... — Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet • Harold Leland Goodwin