Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Readily combustible material, such as dry twigs, used to kindle fires.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dry substance that readily takes fire from a spark or sparks; specifically, a preparation or material used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light. See spunk, 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.
  • noun Same as Amadou.
  • noun a box in which tinder is kept.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun material for starting a fire

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old English tynder.]

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From Old English tynder, from tind. Compare to Swedish tända ("to light, to set on fire"), German zünden.

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