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 helplight afire .
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
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Examples
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Place this on top of a flat flint so that the edge of the tinder is right next to the edge that you are going to strike.
I'm new to starting fires with flint. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a fire started. 2009
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Another option for 'take along' tinder is the lint collected from the dryer after a load of towels BUT it should be kept bone dry in a 35mm film cannister.
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Another option for 'take along' tinder is the lint collected from the dryer after a load of towels BUT it should be kept bone dry in a 35mm film cannister.
What is the best way to start a fire in a hurry in the outdoors without matches etc. 2009
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Like a wildfire igniting in tinder-dry brush, it will only take one spark.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Another option for 'take along' tinder is the lint collected from the dryer after a load of towels BUT it should be kept bone dry in a 35mm film cannister.
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Another option for 'take along' tinder is the lint collected from the dryer after a load of towels BUT it should be kept bone dry in a 35mm film cannister.
What is the best way to start a fire in a hurry in the outdoors without matches etc. 2009
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Place this on top of a flat flint so that the edge of the tinder is right next to the edge that you are going to strike.
I'm new to starting fires with flint. I am having a heck of a time trying to get a fire started. 2009
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Like a wildfire igniting in tinder-dry brush, it will only take one spark.
Checkmate Dungeekin 2009
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These pockets of flames are embedded in tinder throughout the rest of the region.
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Colonel von Falkenheyn, and his assistant, the latter a lieutenant of the guards, and the name tinder which they journeyed was an incognito one; indeed, so cleverly did they manage to conceal their identity that it was hardly ever revealed.
The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900
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