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A box for holding tinder
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tinderbox
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The refugee camps are a tinderbox waiting to catch fire. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the top of the cellar steps Broadman knelt down and fumbled in his tinderbox . ▪ Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a dangerous state of affairs; a situation that is a potential source of violence; "the Balkans are the tinderbox of Europe" a box for holding tinder
Wikipedia
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Tinderbox is the seventh studio album recorded by Stiff Little Fingers , in 1997.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire. 2 (context by extension English) a place that is so dry and hot that there is danger of fire. 3 (context by extension English) ...
Usage examples of tinderbox.
Gaal in all, with their tents and cookpots and travois and hann and fur rugs and axes and armlets and cradleboards and tinderboxes, all their scant belongings, and their fear of the Whiter, and their hunger.
So while Taran scrabbled about gathering dry twigs and leaves and moss for a cook-fire, Koja returned yet again to the treetop and came back down with the tinderbox wherewith a thoughtful and foresighted supply officer had decided each scoutcraft cabin should be outfitted.
Not telling anyone else on the Essex what he was up to, the mischievous Chappel (who was, according to Nickerson, “fond of fun at whatever expense”) brought a tinderbox ashore with him.
With the help of the tinderbox stored in the whale-boat's small keg of emergency equipment, they kindled a fire in the shell and cooked the terrapin, “.
He'd heard Montana had had the original Tinderbox stuffed and mounted and was reluctant to find out that the story wasn't just an urban myth.
Alder Owls hands were full of things on every crossing: clean clothes, a cheese, dried yellow dock and feverfew, a tinderbox, a wool mantle.