tinderboxes in English

noun
1
a thing that is readily ignited.
dry winds and no rain have turned parts of the state into a tinderbox
2
a box containing tinder, flint, a steel, and other items for kindling fires.
Iron and flint I had in my brass tinderbox , and I knelt down by the rocky ledge and began to gather bits of bark.
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