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
Words Nearby cinder
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How to use cinder in a sentence
Once you’ve done that, he recommends placing the bird skin-side down on the grill over low-medium heat and laying something heavy—a brick or cinder block or cast iron pan—on top.
External hard drives have long been associated with large brick-like monsters that weigh down the corners of your workspace like cinder blocks.
The best external hard drives: Expand your file storage | Eric Alt | January 22, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHe and his wife and children shared a cinder-block house with a roof made of sheet metal and a dirt floor.
Today, one in five Cariocas, as Rio residents are known, live in shantytowns, piled high with raw brick and cinder-block homes.
The three of them shared a cinder-block shack on the beach in Puerto Rico.
The story opens with an appearance from the Brothers Grimm, asking an elderly woman to verify the story of a cinder girl.
At that moment, three or four shots rang out almost simultaneously, echoing throughout the cinder block building.
Doe grow on trees, or sea to shoore of sandie cinder heaues.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerAn increase in local construction has resulted in an increase in the production of cinder blocks and other building materials.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyA cinder stung her face, and when she lifted her hand to the spot, she saw that her glove was black with grime.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | John Fox, Jr.They says his voice is like thunder, an' lightnin' shoots fr'm his eyes that wud shrivel th' likes iv ye an' me to a cinder.'
Mr. Dooley Says | Finley DunneOne of these was a rather firm, crisp cinder, and had been a blue-print of a drawing.
Pharaoh's Broker | Ellsworth Douglass
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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