Noun
a short thin stick of wood used in making matches
Source: WordNetI don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?" . Muhammad Ali
Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume. Dolly Parton
He could see his master now, standing alone amid the matchstick trunks of the birch trees. Source: Internet
In 2003 Altman played Nicholas Cage’s psychiatrist in the Ridley Scott comedy “Matchstick Men.” Source: Internet
Holmes then turned back and away from his host and refocused his needs on the pipe and its matchstick. Source: Internet
A matchstick is pictured for scale. Source: Internet