A metal box for holding tinder.
Lots of damp wood around the river Banks, plus lots of things to use for tinder.
They would strike a spark off the friction between flint and steel and catch a tiny piece of tinder alight.
These were "not a cigarette butt being dropped in a tinder-dry forest" but "a gasoline truck exploding" in the middle of one, Mr Wallison says.
so having no candle, I gave it over for some time; but resolv'd to come again the next day, provided with candles, and a tinder-box, which I had made of the lock of one of the muskets, with some wild-fire in the pan.
"Have you got the tinder-box?" asked the witch.
The matches now lay between a tinder-box and an old iron saucepan, and were talking about their youthful days.
A gigantic fireworks display that the TV station staged without a permit on the occasion of the Chinese New Year had the 159-metre building up in flames as if it was built of dry tinder.
The plants are as dry as tinder.
The fires, fanned by desert winds called Santa Anas, are being fueled by tinder-dry brush following a hot summer and record drought.
Dry, decayed wood, used as tinder.
The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.
Material, such as decayed wood, that is used as tinder; punk.
In addition to packing lightweight plastic signal mirrors, well-designed whistles and flints that can be used one-handed, each kit contains a special type of tinder called WetFire.
The plant is as dry as tinder after this long drought.
