CINDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cinder mean? 

• CINDER (noun)
  The noun CINDER has 1 sense:

1. a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire

  Familiarity information: CINDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CINDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cinder; clinker

Hypernyms ("cinder" is a kind of...):

fragment (a piece broken off or cut off of something else)

 Context examples 

But the principle always failed us by some curious fatality, and we never could hit any medium between redness and cinders.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At length the cook took him into his service, and said he might carry wood and water, and rake the cinders together.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Here's a sweet prospect!" muttered Jo, slamming the stove door open, and poking vigorously among the cinders.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Give the Johnny Raw his breakfast. Chuck him in among his own cinders! Sharp’s the word, or you’ll see the back of him.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have erred, perhaps, he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood—you have erred perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable feature about the thing.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This scene was as silent as if all the figures had been shadows and the firelit apartment a picture: so hushed was it, I could hear the cinders fall from the grate, the clock tick in its obscure corner; and I even fancied I could distinguish the click-click of the woman's knitting-needles.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His mother gave him a cake made with water and baked in the cinders, and with it a bottle of sour beer.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I'd better burn the house down, I suppose, than let other people blow themselves up with my gunpowder, she thought as she watched the Demon of the Jura whisk away, a little black cinder with fiery eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago,” cried the loaves as before.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)