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  • verb Present participle of tinder.

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Examples

  • Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together? —

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • -- Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

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