Definitions for cinder

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cinder cin·der

Spelling: [sin-der]

IPA: /ˈsɪn dər/

Cinder is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in cinder (cdeinr).

Definitions for cinder

noun

1. a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
2. cinders. any residue of combustion; ashes. Geology. coarse scoriae erupted by volcanoes.
3. a live, flameless coal; ember.
4. Metallurgy. slag1 (def 1). a mixture of ashes and slag.

verb (used with object)

1. to spread cinders on:
2. Archaic. to reduce to cinders.

verb (used without object)

1. to spread cinders on a surface, as a road or sidewalk:

Origin of cinder

before 900; Middle English synder, Old English sinder slag; cognate with German Sinter, Old Norse sindr; c- (for s-) French cendre ashes

Examples for cinder

What's to be done, then, if a man be drowned at sea, or burned to a cinder in a lime-kiln?

"I'll see you dogs burned to a cinder in the sun first," he growled.

Every incoming locomotive deposited its ashes on the cinder path.

At that moment, three or four shots rang out almost simultaneously, echoing throughout the cinder block building.

It crisped the poor fellow to a cinder, and sheared the head of my comrade clean off.

The path is not a cinder one, as I think them untidy, so I was not more than muddied.

"You're too chip-per," replied the cinder to the kindling wood.

The story opens with an appearance from the Brothers Grimm, asking an elderly woman to verify the story of a cinder girl.

His mouth was as dry as a cinder, and his face was wet with perspiration—and tears.

"It's been a coal day when you're left," said the kindling-wood to the cinder.