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tinderbox

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Definitions

  1. a box for holding tinder

Word origin

From tinder + box, first use appears c. 1530, in the writings of John Palsgrave.

Used in a sentence

  • Just bring me the old tinderbox that my grandmother forgot the last time she went down there.
  • And then came the night that made America famous / Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke? / In the tinderbox trap that we hippies lived in, someone struck a spark
  • Think of your blank journal as a tinderbox, a box for holding combustible materials, ready to catch fire when you sit down to work.

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