Cinder

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A small piece of burned or partly burned substance, such as coal, that is not reduced to ashes but is incapable of further combustion.
  • noun. A piece of charred substance that can burn further but without flame.
  • noun. Ashes.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Slag from a metal furnace.
  • transitive verb. To burn or reduce to cinders.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A piece or mass of any substance that has been partially consumed or calcined by heat and then quenched: as, the cinder of a forge.
  • noun. A small live coal among ashes; an ember.
  • noun. pl. The mass of ashes, with small fragments of unconsumed coal interspersed, which remains after imperfect combustion, or after a fire has gone out. (See coke.)
  • noun. plural In geology, coarse ash or scoriæ thrown out of volcanos. (See ash.) This material when solidified becomes tuff or tufa.
  • noun. One of the scales thrown off by iron when it is worked by the blacksmith.
  • noun. In metallurgy, slag, especially that produced in making pig-iron in the blast-furnace.
  • noun. Any strong liquor, as brandy, whisky, sherry, etc., mixed with a weaker beverage, as soda-water, lemonade, water, etc., to fortify it; a “stick.”
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
  • noun. A hot coal without flame; an ember.
  • noun. A scale thrown off in forging metal.
  • noun. The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.
  • noun. a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders.
  • noun. the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.
  • noun. An ember.
  • noun. Slag from a metal furnace.
  • verb. to reduce something to cinders
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
  • Word Usage
    "To remedy this inconvenience, they make use of another material which they call cinder, it being nothing else but the refuse of the ore after the melting hath been extracted, which, being melted with the other in due quantity, gives it that excellent temper of toughness for which this iron is preferred before any other that is brought from foreign parts."
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    fragment  
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    hinder  tinder  winder  
    Same Context
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    ash  cement  charcoal  coal  dirt  
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    alluvion  alluvium  ash  ashes  brand  
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