单词 | kindler |
释义 | kindlern. 1. A person who kindles or lights a fire; a person who sets something on fire. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > setting on fire or alight > making or kindling of fire > one who fire makera1382 kindler?a1439 fire-kindler1563 firelighter1770 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. l. 1145 (MED) Ther be foure pereilous & reprouvable: Slouthe, Lecherye..Auarice..With Glotonye, cheef kyndeler of ther fyr. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 69v A kyndeler [1483 BL Add. 89074 kyndyller], incentor, jncendarius. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiv. 248 There must needes be fire, and thereupon seeke who was the kindler thereof. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xviii. lxxxv. 332 A sudden..blast, The flames against the kindlers backward cast. 1641 J. Vicars tr. F. Herring November 5. 1605 52 [He] was the kindler of that furious flame. 1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes i. 99 They discover'd great Fires every where, but cou'd not find out the Kindlers of them. 1770 Summons 18th April 20 Who suffers in the burning mansion's flames? Whom but the kindler of the match e'er blames? 1824 Ld. Byron Jrnl. in T. Moore Lett. & Jrnls. Ld. Byron (1830) II. 802 The kindler of this dark lantern of our external existence. 1863 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 20 410 Refer to him as the kindler of fire and offerer of oblations. 1931 Washington Post 6 Apr. 4 Charged with the crime are..confessed kindlers of the fire. 1995 Telegraph (Alton, Illinois) 15 Mar. 1/1 Part of the blame for the fires lies with careless kindlers who don't cover burning barrels. 2005 Jrnl. Law & Relig. 21 54 Isn't the candle's burning over Shabbat considered the ‘action’ of the kindler, as is the case in tort? 2. A person who or thing which inspires, arouses, or inflames; an instigator; an inciter. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > seditious person sower1380 kindler?c1450 stirrerc1450 subvertera1500 subverser1514 subvertor?1532 commotioner1549 provocator1559 seditioner1562 seedsman1587 tumulter1589 turmoiler1591 seditionary1607 seditiary1628 incendiary1631 patriot1644 embroiler1668 agitator1681 seditionist1786 agent provocateur1831 disquietist1834 insurrectionist1845 provocateur1855 galley-growler1867 ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 54 Delicious metes and drinkes,..kindelers [Fr. brandons] of the brondes of lecherye. 1566 J. Barthlet Pedegrewe Heretiques f. 4 The holy spirit of God, ye very light and kindler of their heartes. 1591 A. Colynet True Hist. Ciuill Warres France ix. 546 The court doth declare the foresayd Marcilius Ladrianus..a kindler of hatred. 1639 J. Corbet Ungirding Sc. Armour 27 Be not the kindlers of this unlawfull war. 1679 Articles Relig. in Coll. Rec.: Addenda i. 312 in Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. They also be by occasion the kindlers and firers of mens minds, and make men often remember and lament their sins and offences. 1716 J. Gay Trivia iii. 74 Kindlers of Riot, Enemies of Sleep. 1780 J. Brown Absurdity & Perfidy Toleration of Heresy 31 Notorious murderers of solus, and kindlers of the wrath of God. 1813 Star 21 May 4/2 A kindler of feuds. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 497 The kindler of endless wars. 1934 Morning Herald 26 Dec. 4/3 All great artists are kindlers—of truth, of beauty. 1986 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 18 Oct. 7/2 It's the women who are cultivators and kindlers of relationships. 2008 Financial Times 27 Dec. 11 They are adorable monsters, wreakers of havoc and kindlers of tender feelings. 3. a. Material used to kindle a fire, typically small pieces of wood. Cf. kindling n.2 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > kindling hostry faggot1594 chat1670 fire faggota1722 hostry-wood1738 kindling wood1783 kindler1791 fire kindling1849 crack1851 split1858 1791 N. Webster Prompter 9 You get kindlers, which make a blaze. 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. ii. 6 Put some kindlers under the pot. 1854 C. Knight Once upon a Time II. 276 In those days there was a bundle of green sticks called a kindler, which no power but that of the bellows could make burn. 1900 Daily Times (Colombus, Indiana) 21 Feb. 4/3 One kindler will last two or three years. The kindler is dropped in coal oil before using. a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Europe & Elsewhere (1923) 178 A cheap and cunning little fire kindler consisting of a pine shaving. 1998 N. Harper Spik o the Place 118 I spent the hale day hackin kindlers and noo I've raxed ma back. 2006 A. Foottit Gospel Wild Flowers 56 The elder tree..gets its name not from being older, but from being a kindler for lighting the fire. b. A device used to kindle a fire in a stove or range, esp. (in later use) as part of the lighting mechanism in an oil burning stove. Now rare. ΚΠ 1868 U.S. Patent 79,140 1 A match being then applied, and the kindler held near the opening of the draught, the inflammable liquid therein will burn with a steady heat, and completely ignite the wood or coal in from three to five minutes. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1228/2 Kindler, an attachment to a stove, by which a body of easily lit material is brought against the fuel in the stove to kindle it. 1922 E. R. Peyser Cheating the Junk-pile 90 The stove is lighted by applying the match to the kindler. 1964 J. K. P. Sloos et al. in G. N. Critchley Future Fuel Technol. 186 Prior to the supply of oil from the metering device, part of the bowl is heated by means of a kindler or a hot spot is created by an electrically energized device. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1439 |
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