sparker
sparker Lexical Profile
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• noun
A handheld mechanical or electrical device that produces sparks, typically using a flint and friction wheel, used to ignite a gas burner, welding torch, or Bunsen burner.
"The chemistry student used a flint sparker to light the Bunsen burner at the laboratory bench."
A marine seismic sound source that generates acoustic pulses underwater by discharging a high-voltage electrical spark between electrodes, used in sub-bottom geological profiling.
"Geophysicists towed a high-resolution sparker behind the research vessel to map the sediment layers beneath the seabed."
North American A suitor or person who courts, wooes, or flirts with another (now chiefly historical or dialectal).
"In nineteenth-century rural stories, the young sparker would visit the parlor on Sunday evenings to court the farmer's daughter."