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Fireplace remnant
Answer for the clue "Fireplace remnant ", 6 letters:
cinder
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Word definitions for cinder in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sinder "dross of iron, slag," from Proto-Germanic *sendra- "slag" (cognates: Old Saxon sinder "slag, dross," Old Norse sindr , Middle Low German and Middle Dutch sinder , Dutch sintel , Old High German sintar , German Sinter ), from PIE root ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slag \Slag\ (sl[a^]g), n. [Sw. slagg, or LG. slacke, whence G. schlacke; originally, perhaps, the splinters struck off from the metal by hammering. See Slay , v. t.] The dross, or recrement, of a metal; also, vitrified cinders. The scoria of a volcano. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cinder refers to pyroclastic material. Cinder or Cinders may also refer to:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire [syn: clinker ]
Usage examples of cinder.
Harding could have manufactured this substance by treating the carbonate of potash, which would be easily extracted from the cinders of the vegetables, by azotic acid.
Cyrus Harding could have manufactured this substance by treating the carbonate of potash, which would be easily extracted from the cinders of the vegetables, by azotic acid.
They usually blundered around in the area between the fences until the early morning sun or an SO-17 flame-thrower reduced their lifeless husk to a cinder, and released the tormented soul to make its way through eternity in peace.
She sidled along the Cinder Town fences like any little wench returning after a breathless adventure, and nearly collided with poor Coode who was leaning over his front gate and hanging his melancholy on the pegs of the stars.
She took what she needed with her, passing on the cinder road poor Coode trundling two chicken coops on a barrow.
Cold cinders crumbled under his hands as he marked a patch of ground with soot, then stamped around in a curious dance, singing in a reedy voice that occasionally slipped low.
Wing was writing a letter and Dybbuk was reading what looked like a two-hundred-year-old book as thick as a cinder block and just as dusty.
The Gurth did not want their newly acquired living space cindered, they wanted it intact.
Cyrus Harding felt the volcanic tufa with which the plain was strewn, and which was but pulverized cinders hardened into solid blocks by time, tremble beneath him, but he could discover no traces of fresh lava.
Outside I heard Poppa coming across the cinders in the front yard, making the heavy crunching sound that he always did, and there was a lighter crunch behind him.
Cinder sat kneeling behind her, looking up at her with his Shikar eyes, an almost innocent expression sculpting the masculine planes of his face.
The bright glare of a flashlight illuminated the confines of the car and Cinder winced, his Shikar eyes overly sensitive to the artificial light.
Sulfin Evend snapped, surly as he discovered his spoiled boots, holed through by hot ash and cinders.
Obsidian and Cady had departed from the chamber, Tryton turned to dismiss Edge and Cinder, but motioned for The Traveler to stay behind.
In the midst of the general glow, however, there was one black unkindled cinder.