See charcloth on Wiktionary
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"name": "Fire",
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"A swatch of fabric made from vegetable fibre (such as linen or cotton) that has been converted via pyrolysis into a slow-burning fuel of very low ignition temperature, historically used as tinder."
],
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"fuel",
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[
"ignition",
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[
"temperature",
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[
"tinder",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "cloth used as tinder",
"word": "lunttu"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "cloth used as tinder",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Leinwandzunder"
}
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɑɹklɔθ/",
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]
}
],
"word": "charcloth"
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"code": "fi",
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"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "cloth used as tinder",
"word": "lunttu"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "cloth used as tinder",
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}
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"word": "charcloth"
}
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