[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 (whereof he himselfe had beene no small kindler).
1639. J. Cordet, Ungird. Scot. Arm., 27. Be not the kindlers of this unlawfull war.
1714. Gay, Trivia, III. 321. Kindlers of riot, enemies of sleep.
1878. E. Rénan, in 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. (1871), 6. 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).
