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Cinder

Cinder Meaning & Definition
Cinder Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cinder?

[n] a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cinder: clinker

Related Terms | Find terms related to Cinder: alluvion | alluvium | ash | ashes | brand | burning ember | calx | carbon | charcoal | clinker | coal | coke | coom | deposition | deposits | diluvium | draff | dregs | dross | ember | feces | firebrand | froth | fume | grounds | lava | lees | live coal | loess | moraine | offscum | precipitate | precipitation | reek | scoria | scum | sediment | settlings | silt | sinter | slag | smoke | smudge | smut | soot | sublimate | sullage

See Also | fragment

Cinder In Webster's Dictionary

\Cin"der\ (s[i^]n"d[~e]r), n. [AS. sinder slag, dross; akin to Icel. sindr dross, Sw. sinder, G. sinter, D. sintel; perh. influenced by F. cendre ashes, fr. L. cinis. Cf. {Sinter}.] 1. Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct. 2. A hot coal without flame; an ember. --Swift. 3. A scale thrown off in forging metal. 4. The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano. {Cinder frame}, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. {Cinder notch} (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.

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