Definition of "kindling" []

• Easily ignited material, such as dry sticks of wood, used to start a fire. Also called regionally fat pine, fatwood, lightwood. (noun)

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• "And it's an important point, because there's two things, really, with regards to what they called a kindling effect."
• "_ She takes some wood, or some coal, and puts under it some pine wood, which she calls kindling, and some shavings, and then takes a match and sets the shavings on fire, and very soon the fire is made."
• "Write to Done has been instrumental in kindling my passion to write again."