kindling

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Etymology

From kindle +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

Noun

kindling (plural kindlings)

  1. Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
    Coordinate terms: tinder; firewood
    Go and collect some kindling.
    • 1907 August, Robert W Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      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.
  2. 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

Usage notes

Kindling refers to the second stage of building a fire: tinder is used to light kindling, which then lights the main fire.

Translations

Adjective

kindling (comparative more kindling, superlative most kindling)

  1. Illuminated, lit.
    • 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, "Ye shall seek me in the Morning, but I shall not be,", page 52:
      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;—

Verb

kindling

  1. present participle and gerund of kindle
    Despite the damp wood, he had no trouble kindling a fire.
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