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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Readily combustible material, such as dry twigs, used to kindle fires.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A dry substance that readily takes fire from a spark or sparks; specifically, a preparation or material used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light. See spunk, 1. When tinder was in general use instead of matches, it consisted commonly of charred linen, which was ignited in a metallic box.

Wiktionary

  1. n. small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc, used to help light a fire.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. material for starting a fire

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English tynder.

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