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Cinder
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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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