DCHP-3

mouth comb

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in a fire-drill, the socket held in the mouth and accommodating the vertical spindle. [See picture at fireboard.]

Quotations

1943
Out of his fire bag Dan took the Ojibway socket with the mouth comb, a thong with grip sticks on its ends, his drill, fire board and curls of yellow birch mixed with shredded cedar bark.