chain-light

English

Verb

chain-light (third-person singular simple present chain-lights, present participle chain-lighting, simple past and past participle chain-lit or chain-lighted)

1. To light a new cigarette with the burning stub of one's previous cigarette.
   • 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 32:

     He chain-lit a fresh cigarette and flicked the old butt, still smouldering, into the steel ash-can beside his drawing table.