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kindling
English
Etymology
kindle +? -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?ndl??/
Noun
kindling (countable and uncountable, plural kindlings)
- Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
- 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 […]
- December 14, 1784, Hester Rogers, letter to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher
Usage notes
Kindling refers to the second stage of building a fire: tinder is used to light kindling, which then lights the main fire.
Coordinate terms
- tinder
Translations
Verb
kindling
- present participle of kindle
- Despite the damp wood, he had no trouble kindling a fire.
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kippen
English
Alternative forms
- kippeen (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish cipín (“stick used for planting; matchstick”).
Noun
kippen (plural kippens)
- (dialectal) A piece of small firewood or kindling; dibber
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?p?n
Noun
kippen
- Plural form of kip
Anagrams
- knippe
German
Etymology
An originally Low German and Central German word of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Kippe (etymology 1).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?p?n/, [?k?p?n], [?k?pm?]
Verb
kippen (weak, third-person singular present kippt, past tense kippte, past participle gekippt, auxiliary haben or sein)
- (transitive) to tilt [auxiliary haben]
- (transitive) to dump; to pour [auxiliary haben]
- (intransitive) to tip over [auxiliary sein]
Conjugation
Derived terms
- abkippen
- ankippen
- auskippen
- runterkippen
- umkippen
- wegkippen
- Kippe (etymology 2)
- Kipper
- Kippschwingung
- Kippstufe
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