tinderbox
/tˈɪndɚbˌɑks/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire.
noun
name
A suburb of Kingborough council area, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Example Sentences
- "Haines helped himself and snapped the case to. He put it back in his sidepocket and took from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang it open too, and, having lit his cigarette, held the flaming spunk towards Stephen in the shell of his hands."
- "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."
- "This act was the "match that ignited the great tinderbox of fuel" that had been building for years between many of the countries in Europe."