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CINDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
Synonyms:
cinder; clinker
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("cinder" is a kind of...):
fragment (a piece broken off or cut off of something else)
Context examples:
She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker’s oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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