Look up: tinder

1. Tinder
   Fine, shredded Birch bark or other highly combustible wood. Used for starting fire with flint and steel, or with a fire drill. Charred cotton was also used as tender.
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2. tinder
   a fungus that is the source of punk; esp. a destructive pore fungus (Fomes fomentarius) that attacks the beech, elm and various fruit trees and is used in making tinder and a pliant felt-like material Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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3. Tinder
   Tin'der noun [ Middle English tinder , tunder , Anglo-Saxon tynder , tyndre ; akin to tendan to kindle, Dutch tonder tinder, German zunder , Old High German zuntara , zuntra , Icelandic ...
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4. Tinder
   • (n.) Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.
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5. Tinder
   `Tinder` is easily combustible material used to ignite fires by rudimentary methods. A small fire consisting of tinder is then used to ignite kindling. Anything that can be ignited by a match can be considered tinder; or by more rigorous definition, anything that begins to glow under a shower of spa...
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