Cin·der n.
1. Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
2. A hot coal without flame; an ember.
3. A scale thrown off in forging metal.
4. The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.
Cinder frame, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders.
Cinder notch Metal., the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.
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