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The definition of a cinder is a small piece of burned wood or coal that is still sparking even though it has been mostly burned.

(noun)

A small leftover piece of firewood that is still solid and burning without flame is an example of a cinder.

See cinder in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

slag, as from the reduction of metallic ores
a rough piece of solid lava from a volcano
any matter, as coal or wood, burned out or partly burned, but not reduced to ashes
a minute piece of such matter
a coal that is still burning but not flaming
ashes from coal or wood

Origin: ME & OE sinder, dross of iron, slag < IE base *sendhro-, coagulating fluid > Ger sinter, dross of iron, stalactite, sintern, to trickle, coagulate, Czech śadra, gypsum

transitive verb

Rare to burn to cinders
to cover with cinders

Related Forms:

cindery adjective

See cinder in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. A burned or partly burned substance, such as coal, that is not reduced to ashes but is incapable of further combustion.
b. A partly charred substance that can burn further but without flame.
cinders Ashes.
cinders Geology See scoria.
Metallurgy See scoria.
Slag from a metal furnace.