- tinder-dry
- ,tinder-`dry adjectiveextremely dry and easy to start a fire with
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tinder-dry — adj extremely dry and likely to burn very easily ▪ The whole forest is tinder dry … Dictionary of contemporary English
tinder-dry — UK US adjective extremely dry and easy to start a fire with Thesaurus: dry to the touchsynonym … Useful english dictionary
tinder-dry — adjective extremely dry and likely to burn very easily: The whole forest is tinder dry … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
tinder-dry — adjective extremely dry and flammable … English new terms dictionary
tinder-dry — UK / US adjective extremely dry and easy to start a fire with … English dictionary
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. Materials commonly used as tinder:*… … Wikipedia
tinder — [OE] Tinder, and its relatives German zunder, Dutch tonder, and Swedish tunder, go back to a prehistoric Germanic base *tund ‘ignite, kindle’, which also produced German anzünden, Swedish upptända, and Danish antænde ‘kindle’. Its ultimate… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
tinder — [OE] Tinder, and its relatives German zunder, Dutch tonder, and Swedish tunder, go back to a prehistoric Germanic base *tund ‘ignite, kindle’, which also produced German anzünden, Swedish upptända, and Danish antænde ‘kindle’. Its ultimate… … Word origins
tinder — (n.) dry, inflammable substance, O.E. tynder, related to tendan to kindle, from P.Gmc. *tund ignite, kindle (Cf. Goth. tandjan, Swed. tända, Ger. zünden) … Etymology dictionary
tinder — ► NOUN ▪ dry, flammable material used for lighting a fire. ORIGIN Old English … English terms dictionary
