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cin·der

(sĭn′dər)

a. A small piece of burned or partly burned substance, such as coal, that is not reduced to ashes but is incapable of further combustion.

b. A piece of charred substance that can burn further but without flame.

2. cinders Ashes.

3. cinders Geology See scoria.

4. Metallurgy See scoria.

5. Slag from a metal furnace.

tr.v. cin·dered, cin·der·ing, cin·ders

To burn or reduce to cinders.

[Alteration (influenced by Old French cendre, ashes) of Middle English sinder, from Old English, slag, dross.]

cin′der·y adj.

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He did not remember hearing any birds that morning, there was certainly no breeze stirring, and the only sounds were the faint movements from within the cindery cylinder.

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Even the form of a crater can but rarely be discovered on the summits of the many red cindery hills; yet the more recent streams can be distinguished on the coast, forming lines of cliffs of less height, but stretching out in advance of those belonging to an older series: the height of the cliffs thus affording a rude measure of the age of the streams.

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It might win you the hand of the handsome prince, yet also spells trouble: confinement to a cindery hearth, say, or the jealousy of a ruler who seeks to cut your heart out.

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On 1936, as Orwell set out from London to Birmingham via Coventry on the first leg of his journey, he wrote: "The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs."

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