kindler
(ˈkɪndlə(r))
[f. kindle v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who kindles; one who sets anything on fire.
| a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 54 Delycious metes and drinkes..kindelers of the brondes of lecherye. 1483 Cath. Angl. 203/2 A kyndyller, incensor, incendiarius. 1600 Fairfax Tasso xviii. lxxxv, A sudden..blast The flames against the kindlers backward cast. 1726 Cavallier Mem. i. 99 They discover'd great Fires every where, but cou'd not find out the Kindlers of them. 1821 Byron Diary in Juan i. cxiv. note (Wks. 1846), The kindler of this dark lantern. |
2. One who or that which inflames, incites, or stirs up.
| 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 184/2 The sedition (where⁓of he himselfe had beene no small kindler). 1639 J. Corbet Ungird. Scot. Arm. 27 Be not the kindlers of this unlawfull war. 1714 Gay Trivia iii. 321 Kindlers of riot, enemies of sleep. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 497 The kindler of endless wars. |
3. Something that will kindle readily, used for lighting a fire.
| 1851 S. Judd Margaret ii, Put some kindlers under the pot. 1854 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. |
b. An arrangement to assist in kindling the fire in a stove (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875).