Associations to the word «Tinder»

Wiktionary

TINDER, noun. Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
TINDER, verb. (transitive) To set fire to; torch.
TINDER BOX, noun. Alternative spelling of tinderbox

Dictionary definition

TINDER, noun. Material for starting a fire.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne