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Webster 1913 Edition
Cinder
Cin′der
(sĭn′dẽr)
, Noun.
[AS.
sinder
slag, dross; akin to Icel. sindr
dross, Sw. sinder
, G. sinter
, D. sintel
; perh. influenced by F. cendre
ashes, fr. L. cinis
. Cf. Sinter
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cinder
CINDER
, n.1.
Small coals or particles of fire mixed with ashes; embers.2.
Small particles of matter, remaining after combustion, in which fire is extinct; as the cinders of a forge.