cinder
noun
a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
cinderous
-
a word derived from
cinder.
Example Sentences
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In ugly angles and sharp, unreasonable bends it zigzagged down the shoulder of the great cinderous mountain.
From Jungle Peace by William Beebe
There was a very scanty cinderous fire in the grate by which they sat; and there was a tent bedstead in the room with a bed upon it and a coverlet.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
A worthy companion portrait to that of cinderous Mr. Toodles, the stoker, familiar to the readers of Dombey.
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Foster Kent
These towns looked, in the cinderous wet, as though they had one and all been on fire and were just put out—a dreary and quenched panorama, many miles long.
From Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens
