matchstick in English

noun
1
the stem of a match, especially a wooden one.
Of course the reviewer was referring to modellers who don't use matches but just matchsticks , small pieces of wood.

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1. Viral Matchstick Brain teaser Your task is to move just one matchstick to fix the equation

2. The temporary bridge was first of all submerged then, like a matchstick, it was lifted up and swept aside.

3. It is one thing to read about famine; it is quite another to see a picture of a five-year-old girl with a bloated belly and matchstick limbs, a barely living victim of starvation.

4. • Bayoneted micro-scissors can be useful in some surgeries • Endoscopic dural repair set Surgical drilling with a fluted matchstick drill is a side-drilling, so the surgeon has to use the instrument this way, starting at the inferior edge of the superior lamina of the surgical level, at the