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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tinder.

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Examples

  • In the open stove were the tindered remains of the letter Ham had burned.

    Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants Oliver Optic 1859

  • Earlier in the Winter, Sir John ordered a system of Stout Poles, ropes, and Hanging Lanterns to line the shortest route between the Ships and the graveled isthmus where several Structures had been built — one to house much of the ships 'stores, removed should ice destroy our vessels; another as a sort of emergency bunkhouse and Scientific Station; and a third housing the armourer's forge, set here so that the Flames and Sparks should not ignite our tindered shipboard Homes.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

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