Synonyms:
ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation
Meaning: the act of setting something on fire
Synonyms:
kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punk
Meaning: material for starting a fire
Usage examples
I'll order the kindling!
Blood looked at him with a faint kindling of interest.
Horace earned a few pennies all his own; sometimes by selling nuts, or bundles of the roots of pitch-pine for kindling, which he carried on his back to the store.
They were in appearance small, round, smooth stones, but had the admirable properties of securing fertility to the fields, protecting from lightning, and, by a transition easy to understand, were also adored as gods of the Fire, as well material as of the passions, and were capable of kindling the dangerous flames of desire in the most frigid bosom.