Kindling vs Kinkling - What's the difference?
kindling | kinkling |
Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
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*:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
The act by which something is kindled.
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As verbs the difference between kindling and kinkling
is that kindling is present participle of lang=en while kinkling is present participle of lang=en.As a noun kindling
is small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.kindling
English
(Firelighting)Noun
Usage notes
Kindling refers to the second stage of building a fire: tinder is used to light kindling, which then lights the main fire.Coordinate terms
* (l)Verb
(head)- Despite the damp wood, he had no trouble kindling a fire.