cinder Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
    clinker.

WordNet

Cin"der noun
Etymology
AS. sinder slag, dross; akin to Icel. sindr dross, Sw. sinder, G. sinter, D. sintel; perh. influenced by F. cendre ashes, fr. L. cinis. Cf. Sinter.
Definitions
  1. Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
  2. A hot coal without flame; an ember. Swift.
  3. A scale thrown off in forging metal.
  4. The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.

Webster 1913