TINDER


Meaning of TINDER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

dry

But Cincinnati seems to have been unusually dry tinder .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An ancient tallow candle stood fixed in its grease on one of the cross-beams, with a tinder beside it.

As news of the shooting spread, Overtown exploded like tinder in a lightning storm.

At a spark from her tinder , a sheet of flame could envelop the Genoese.

But Cincinnati seems to have been unusually dry tinder .

Logs in the grate, tinder box on the hearth.

They will think of what happened to you and hide tinder their beds.

This was not the first time the tinder box called Hebron has been touched by flame.

Well don't stand like a lump of dozy puddin' - take some sticks and tinder and get started.

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