Crossword clues for tinderbox
tinderbox
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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) a potentially dangerous situation.
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
A tinderbox is a container made of wood or metal containing flint, firesteel, sulphur-tipped matches and tinder (typically charcloth, but possibly a small quantity of dry, finely divided fibrous matter such as hemp), used together to help kindle a fire.
Tinderboxes fell out of general usage when friction matches were invented.
Tinderbox is the seventh studio album recorded by Stiff Little Fingers, in 1997.
A tinderbox is a container with the essential tools to make a fire.
Tinderbox may also refer to:
Tinderbox is a personal content management system and personal knowledge base.
It is a tool for storing, arranging, exploring, and publishing data.
Tinderbox are a UK-based acoustic duo featuring vocalist Monique Houraghan (born Dublin, Ireland in 1976) and guitarist Dan Tucker (born Hampshire, UK in 1974). The pair met at university in Yorkshire in 1994 and soon began writing and performing together. After four creative years living in Dublin between 1997 and 2001 the duo travelled the world for two years, performing in over seven countries, before eventually settling in Bournemouth, England. The duo married in September 2008.
To date Tinderbox have produced five studio albums and one live album. Tom Robinson's feature of the 2010 track 'The State of Play' on BBC Radio 6 Music boosted the duo's popularity when he described their music as 'Gorgeous'. In May that year the duo played a successful tour of the US and a few months later they picked up an award for 'Best International Group' in Cáceres, Spain.
Tinderbox have recently been accompanied on tour by singer-songwriter and session musician Bob Burke.
Dan and Monique have a daughter, 'Orla Daisy' born on 31 May 2011 (midway through the recording of their fifth studio album 'Counting Time') and a son 'Aidan Lewis' born on 13 December 2013.
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.