All 10 Uses of
kindle
in
A Dance With Dragons
- Varamyr had no flint, no tinder, no dry kindling.†
p. 8.5kindling = starting or spreading (a fire); or twigs, sticks, or other easily combustible material used to start a fire
- As kindling?†
p. 84.7
- They'd bent them and twisted them around and through each other to weave a wooden lattice, then hung it high above a deep pit filled with logs, leaves, and kindling.†
p. 147.1 *
- The horn crashed amongst the logs and leaves and kindling.†
p. 149.1
- Soon she would have only a tangle of kindling on her arm.†
p. 383.9
- His shield had been reduced to kindling.†
p. 414.1
- What it really meant was that some bloody big storm would turn our mast to kindling so we could drift aimlessly across the Gulf of Grief until our food ran out and we started eating one another.†
p. 586.3
- When the snows came, though ...snow and sleet and freezing rain, it's bloody hard to find dry wood or get your kindling lit, and the cold ...some nights our fires just seemed to shrivel up and die.†
p. 852.9
- A new flame is kindled for every one that gutters out.†
p. 389.8 *
- Each night, the sorcerer priest would kindle a fire on the forecastle of the Iron Victory and stalk around the flames, chanting prayers.†
p. 907.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(kindle as in: dry twigs to kindle a fire) start (a fire)
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(2)
(kindle as in: it may kindle her interest) arouse or inspire
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, Kindle can refer to a computer-reading tablet sold by Amazon.