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Webster 1913 Edition

Cinder

Cin′der

(sĭn′dẽr)
,
Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cinder

CINDER

, n.
1.
Small coals or particles of fire mixed with ashes; embers.
2.
Small particles of matter, remaining after combustion, in which fire is extinct; as the cinders of a forge.

Definition 2024

Cinder

Cinder

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Cinder

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cinder

cinder

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Noun

cinder ‎(plural cinders)

  1. Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.
  2. An ember.
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  3. Slag from a metal furnace.

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Verb

cinder ‎(third-person singular simple present cinders, present participle cindering, simple past and past participle cindered)

  1. (transitive) to reduce something to cinders

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Etymology

From Middle English cinder, sinder, from Old English sinder ‎(“cinder, dross, slag, scoria, dross of iron, impurity of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *sindrą, *sindraz, *sendraz ‎(“dross, cinder, slag”), from Proto-Indo-European *sendʰro- ‎(“coagulating fluid, liquid slag, scale, cinder”). Cognate with Scots sinder ‎(“ember, cinder”), West Frisian sindel, sintel ‎(“cinder, slag”), Dutch sintel ‎(“cinder, ember, slag”), Middle Low German sinder, sinter ‎(“cinder, slag”), German Sinter ‎(“dross of iron, scale”), Danish sinder ‎(“spark of ignited iron, cinder”), Swedish sinder ‎(“slag or dross from a forge”), Icelandic sindur ‎(“scoring”), Old Church Slavonic сѧдра ‎(sędra, “lime cinder, gypsum”). Spelling (c- for s-) influenced by unrelated French cendre ‎(“ashes”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪndə(r)

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