0 small pieces of something dry that burns easily, used for lighting fires:
1 a substance that burns easily, such as paper or thin sticks of wood, used to light fires
You touched the punk to glowing tinder, and it burst into flame.
It may be objected that with the whole country like tinder it will be impossible to exclude grass-fires either generally or continuously.
One reason why an annex is needed is to house these returnable empties, which are like tinder and are a great fire risk.
All those factors provided the tinder that ignited the violence.
But there is too much inflammable tinder around at the moment.
Discharge by purchase for airmen was reintroduced on the same day as for soldiers, and tinder similar conditions.
Trunk road schemes giving access to docklands worth £175 million have been completed or are tinder construction and a further £360 million of expenditure is planned.
Pension sharing is available in relation to a person's shareable rights tinder any arrangement other than an excepted public service scheme.
