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cinder

noun

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

transitive verb

  1. Rare to burn to cinders
  2. to cover with cinders

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