Word Study
kindling
CIDE DICTIONARY
kindling, n.
- The act of causing to burn, or of exciting or inflaming the passions.
- Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire, such as small twigs or paper; -- also used in the
pl. . [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
kindling
backlog, bavin, brush, brushwood, enkindling, fagot, firewood, firing, flammation, ignition, incendiary, inflaming, inflammation, inflammative, inflammatory, kindlings, lighting, lighting up, log, stovewood, wood, yule clog, yule logFor further exploring for "kindling" in Webster Dictionary Online