Thesaurus: cinder

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1. n. Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
2. n. A hot coal without flame; an ember.
3. n. A scale thrown off in forging metal.
4. n. The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.
5. n. a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
6. 1. Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct. 2. A hot coal without flame; an ember. Swift. 3. A scale thrown off in forging metal. 4. The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano. Cinder frame, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. -- Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.
7. n:100 n. a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire