Definition of "cinder" [cin•der]

• A burned or partly burned substance, such as coal, that is not reduced to ashes but is incapable of further combustion. (noun)
• A partly charred substance that can burn further but without flame. (noun)
• Ashes. (noun)
• Geology See scoria. (noun)
• Metallurgy See scoria. (noun)

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• "To remedy this inconvenience, they make use of another material which they call cinder, it being nothing else but the refuse of the ore after the melting hath been extracted, which, being melted with the other in due quantity, gives it that excellent temper of toughness for which this iron is preferred before any other that is brought from foreign parts."
• "To remedy this inconvenience, they make use of another material, which they call cinder, it being nothing else but the refuse of the ore, after the melting hath been extracted, which, being melted with the other in due quantity, gives it that excellent temper of toughness for which this iron is preferred before any other that is brought from foreign parts."
• ""By this simple process," said he, "all the earthy particles are pressed out and the iron becomes at once free from dross, and what is usually called cinder, and is compressed into a fibrous and tough state.""