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- noun Plural form of
tinder-box .
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Examples
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He ran to the ponies and before long came back with two tinder-boxes and a hatchet.
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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He ran to the ponies and before long came back with two tinder-boxes and a hatchet.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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Guns were flint-locks, tinder-boxes were used until the manufacture of the friction match.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln Henry Ketcham
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They had axes, saws, augers, and shaves, or drawing-knives, and for protection and food their guns and ammunition; not forgetting their bibles, hymn-books, and tinder-boxes.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 Various
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In the north of England in the days of tinder-boxes, if any one could not get a light it was useless to ask a neighbour for one, so frightfully unlucky was it to allow any light to leave the house between Christmas
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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Gandalf, too, was lying down after doing his part in setting the fire going, since Oin and Gloin had lost their tinder-boxes.
The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938
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They used to put wax candles and tinder-boxes with them in the niches, but when these sulphur matches came in fashion, they preferred them for economy.
Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905
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Guns were flint-locks, tinder-boxes were used until the manufacture of the friction match.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln Ketcham, Henry 1901
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He had laid the knives, tinder-boxes and bag of food on a table.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900
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That is the kind of wick you use in your candles to-day; and the snuffers have gone into curiosity cases in museums along with the clumsy tinder-boxes of the past.
Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days George Manville Fenn 1870
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