kindling

Definitions

1. Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
2. firewood, wood (pieces of wood gathered to burn as fuel)
3. The act by which something is kindled.
4. third-person singular present indicative
5. second-person singular imperative

Equivalents

Examples

“Go and collect⟳ some kindling.”

“When the flames at last⟳ began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find⟳ Miss⟳ Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log⟳ across the andirons.”

“December 14, 1784, Hester Rogers, letter to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher The kindlings of love⟳ which had been felt before, now became a flame in every believing soul; and when fallen on our knees, the power of God descended of a truth […]”

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