cinder
a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
cinders,
any residue of combustion; ashes.
Geology. coarse scoriae erupted by volcanoes.
a live, flameless coal; ember.
Metallurgy.
a mixture of ashes and slag.
to spread cinders on: The highway department salted and cindered the icy roads.
Archaic. to reduce to cinders.
to spread cinders on a surface, as a road or sidewalk:My neighbor began cindering as soon as the first snowflake fell.
Origin of cinder
1Other words from cinder
- cin·der·y, cin·der·ous, adjective
- cin·der·like, adjective
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How to use cinder in a sentence
I was determined for this to happen, but his mother thwarted my efforts and had him burnt to cinders in the US instead.
I have had broken bricks and cinders put down for them to stand on, and thus lifted them out of the mud.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieThe cinders fell together with a crumbling sound, and a greyness crept into their glowing depths.
With Edged Tools | Henry Seton MerrimanShe was indeed browning the coffee with a vengeance; she was burning it black—fairly to cinders.
Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2 | Ida May Hill StarrRed-hot cinders he highly relished, though in obtaining them he frequently singed off his moustaches.
The Animal Story Book | Various
The live cinders from the firebox went up the chimney all night, and fell in showers on deck.
Over the Sliprails | Henry Lawson
British Dictionary definitions for cinder
/ (ˈsɪndə) /
a piece of incombustible material left after the combustion of coal, coke, etc; clinker
a piece of charred material that burns without flames; ember
Also called: sinter any solid waste from smelting or refining
(plural) fragments of volcanic lava; scoriae
(tr) rare to burn to cinders
Origin of cinder
1Derived forms of cinder
- cindery, adjective
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Other Idioms and Phrases with cinder
see burned to a cinder.
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