kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punk
(noun) material for starting a fire
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tinder (countable and uncountable, plural tinders)
Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc, used to help light a fire.
Tinder refers to the first stage of building a fire: sparks light tinder, which then lights kindling, which then lights the main fire.
• kindling
tinder (third-person singular simple present tinders, present participle tindering, simple past and past participle tindered)
(transitive) To set fire to; torch.
• dirten, rident, trined
Tinder (plural Tinders)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tinder is the 26727th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 911 individuals. Tinder is most common among White (88.36%) individuals.
• dirten, rident, trined
Source: Wiktionary
Tin"der, n. Etym: [OE. tinder, tunder, AS. tynder, tyndre; akin to tendan to kindle, D. tonder tinder, G. zunder, OHG. zuntara, zuntra, Icel. tundr, Sw. tunder, Dan. tönder. See Tind.]
Definition: Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen. German tinder. Same as Amadou.
– Tinder box, a box in which tinder is kept.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
