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grip-stick
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a short length of wood attached to each end of the thong used to rotate a firedrill (a stick used for making fire). See picture at fire-board.
See: fire-board
Quotations
1943
This time Dan used the fire-making method of the Ojibways. He tied a short grip-stick to each end of his cord . . . and stooped over it with the socket in his teeth.