kindling
Collocations
4ADJ.
bright, good
VERB + KINDLING
collect, cut, go, logs, make, pinecones, use
KINDLING + NOUN
campfire, landscape
PREP.
into, on
Definitions
noun
Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
Go and collect some kindling.
When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
The act by which something is kindled.
December 14, 1784, Hester Rogers, letter to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher The kindlings of love which had been felt before, now became a flame in every believing soul; and when fallen on our knees, the power of God descended of a truth […]
adj
Illuminated, lit.
The morning o'er the gilded grove Bright on the kindling landscape fell, I sought her where she oft did rove In want and sorrow's lonely cell;—
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6Go and collect some kindling.
WiktionaryWhen the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hea
WiktionaryDecember 14, 1784, Hester Rogers, letter to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher The kindlings of love which had been felt before, now became a flame in every believing soul; and when fallen on our knees, the power
WiktionaryThe morning o'er the gilded grove Bright on the kindling landscape fell, I sought her where she oft did rove In want and sorrow's lonely cell;—
WiktionaryWhoops! There aren't many live coals left! Go make some kindling would you?
Tatoeba · #326895"I'll make meat strips out of Tom if I get my hands on him!" "Now, because of you, I'm hungry! Just tell me that you'll cut him into kindling! "
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