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A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder.
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(usually in the plural) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side
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An opening through which the ash is removed from a fireplace.
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A container that fits below the grate of a domestic fireplace.
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a boiler that supplies a central heating and hot water system and is fitted into a fireplace recess, normally behind a gas fire
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A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
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Alternative form of baseburner [A type of stove that automatically re-adds coal, when needed, to the base using a hopper.]
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A type of stove that automatically re-adds coal, when needed, to the base using a hopper.
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(historical) A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.
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(metallurgy) as above, but specifically a forge where the fuel and the ore are intermixed.
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A section of split logs used as fuel.
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A hollow poker through which air can be blown to fuel a fire.
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(historical) A form of black powder modified to reduce the risk of gas explosions in mines.
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The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.
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An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.
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Alternative form of briquet (block of compressed combustible material used as fuel) [(dated) Synonym of lighter in reference to any device used to light cigarettes.]
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A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
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A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel.
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A vertical support for a furnace or boiler, to give it rigidity.
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A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen or air is supplied.
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Alternative form of campfire [A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.]
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A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.
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An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
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1881, H.L. Brækstad (translator), Round the Yule Log: Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, page 308, "The Charcoal-Burner", translation of "Kullbrenneren", Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, in Norske Folke-Eventyr. Ny Samling 1871.
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A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire drill.
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The side of an open fireplace or hearth in a home, traditionally thought of as a place for the old or unwell; an inglenook.
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The combustion of residue deposits referred to as soot or creosote, on the inner surfaces of chimney tiles, flue liners, stove pipes, etc.
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A hook for suspending pots and kettles over a fire.
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(archaic) Yule log (large log traditionally burned on Christmas Eve)
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Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.
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A backless three-sided bench in front of a fireplace.
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A mechanical device that burns pulverized coal to produce a flame.
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A rake used to stir the coals / ashes in a furnace or oven
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(UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.
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A masonry heater covered in tile; a tile stove.
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A fire used for cooking food.
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A small butane torch for use in the kitchen for browning foods.
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A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire.
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(coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
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A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.
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A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
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A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
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(chiefly dialectal) firewood; fuel
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Alternative form of femerell [(historical) The lantern, louvre, or covering placed in the ridge of a hall roof for the purpose of ventilation or letting out the smoke of the fire kindled on a central hearth.]
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a low metal framework in front of a fireplace, intended to catch hot coals, soot, and ash
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(countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
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Synonym of fire engine (“vehicle used by firefighters”)
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A special type of axe used by firefighters, typically featuring a pick-shaped pointed poll (area of the head opposite the cutting edge) and in a vivid color to make it easily visible during an emergency.
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A portable grate for lighting a fire outdoors, or historically for heating bedrooms etc.
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A simple tool for fighting wildfires, consisting of a piece of rubber at the end of a pole.
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A large piece of fireproof or fire resistant material, used exclusively to cover and extinguish a small fire.
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The hearth of an outdoor grill.
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a laboratory cabinet used to isolate flammable chemicals
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Synonym of hwacha (historical Korean weapon)
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A set of building and property regulations designed to establish a mandatory standard for a building's ability to resist the start and spread of a fire as well as facilitating the prompt and safe evacuation of the occupants.
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(historical, archaic, mining) A mine worker who detects and clears a mineshaft of firedamp by intentionally burning or blowing it up.
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The metal frame in a fireplace, used to hold the logs, or to support the poker and other tools.
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The door of a furnace offering access to the fire inside.
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A fire-starting tool consisting of a wooden rod and some primitive means of rapidly rotating the rod on a flat surface like a drill until tinder can be ignited.
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A grate used to hold the fuel in domestic fireplaces and in many forms of heaters and furnaces.
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A mesh screen placed in front of a fire to prevent sparks escaping.
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Any of a set of metal tools kept beside the fireplace, used to keep the fire burning as required. The set usually consists of fire tongs, a poker, a spade, and a brush for the ashes.
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The quantity of combustible matter in a given area, or the quantity of heat that can be generated by its combustion.
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(obsolete) A poker (implement used to stoke a fire).
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Alternative spelling of firepit [A pit dug in the ground, or constructed from stones, in which a fire is made, principally for cooking.]
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The lowest temperature at which the vapour of a fuel will continue to burn for at least five seconds after ignition by an open flame of standard dimension.
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A ring of stones, etc., used to prevent a campfire from spreading.
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A special drumbeat used to summon men to their quarters in case of fire.
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Practices intended to prevent fires and reduce the destruction they cause.
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a mesh grill placed in front of a fire to prevent sparks escaping.
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A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.
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Alternative form of firestriker [A piece of high-carbon steel used for striking a spark, usually kept in a tinderbox with flint and tinder.]
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Tongs used for gripping and moving burning coals and logs in a fire. Part of a set of fire irons.
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A watchtower to search for fires in a forest.
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The three elements necessary and sufficient to sustain a fire: fuel (e.g. wood or petrol/gasoline), oxidizer (e.g. oxygen), and sufficient heat (e.g. reaction temperature or activation energy).
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Alternative form of fire grate [A grate used to hold the fuel in domestic fireplaces and in many forms of heaters and furnaces.]
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A firelighting tool of two sticks rubbed together to produce heat through friction and heat, and eventually an ember. Typically It uses a V-shaped base piece of wood, usually a soft wood that will produce dust hence tinder, and a hard wood "friction stick" as the activator.
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Alternative form of firestick farming [A traditional practice of the Aboriginal people of Australia whereby areas of bushland or other vegetation would be deliberately set on fire at various times in order to promote new growth.]
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A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.
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Any of the metal bars that form the base of a boiler's furnace and support the fire.
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A layer of fuel that burns under a heat source
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A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.
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The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned.
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An area cleared of all flammable material to prevent a fire from spreading across it.
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A cock or spout to let out water for extinguishing fires.
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The set of knowledge and skills needed to make a (controlled) fire (for warmth, cooking, etc).
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handheld fan used for fanning a fire
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The leading edge of a wildfire
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Alternative form of fire grate [A grate used to hold the fuel in domestic fireplaces and in many forms of heaters and furnaces.]
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A mesh screen around a fire to prevent sparks or falling embers.
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(dated, historical) a long pole with a hook at the end, used to pull down buildings and roof thatch to suppress a fire.
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Alternative form of fire iron [Any of a set of metal tools kept beside the fireplace, used to keep the fire burning as required. The set usually consists of fire tongs, a poker, a spade, and a brush for the ashes.]
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small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires.
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A log that is burned in the fireplace.
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A pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun.
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A pit dug in the ground, or constructed from stones, in which a fire is made, principally for cooking.
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An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.
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A fire-starter match with a long shaft used for lighting a fire, where holding a short-shaft match close to the ignitable fuel might pose a risk.
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Furnished with a fireplace.
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(BDSM) Any of various sexual practices involving fire, such as setting fire to alcohol against the skin.
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A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.
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An early incendiary device, an earthenware pot filled with combustible materials and ignited through a hole in the bottom.
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The ability to deliver fire.
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Designed to reduce the risk of fire.
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A screen placed in front of a hearth to shield the rest of the room from the fire.
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A set of fire irons, typically including tongs, shovel, and poker.
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The area near a domestic fire or hearth.
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A dustpan and brush, poker and tongs, often hanging from a central support, used to manage a coal fire
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A tool used to start a fire.
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A poker used to arrange coals, logs, etc., in a fire.
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A traditional practice of the Aboriginal people of Australia whereby areas of bushland or other vegetation would be deliberately set on fire at various times in order to promote new growth.
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Iron pyrites, formerly used for striking fire.
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(construction) A fire block.
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Material used as a firestop.
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A piece of high-carbon steel used for striking a spark, usually kept in a tinderbox with flint and tinder.
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one who walks barefoot over hot coals
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Aware of the risks of fires and how to put them out.
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The gathering of firewood.
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An instrument used in cauterizing.
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a large blowlamp used to control weeds etc.
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A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.
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a tall structure used for burning off waste gas at oil refineries and other installations.
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A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark.
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(historical) A small box, with an iron pan, to hold hot coals for warming the feet.
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A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
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Alternative form of foot stove [(historical) A small box, with an iron pan, to hold hot coals for warming the feet.]
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The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.
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(metallurgy, Northern England, Scotland) A piece of cast-iron which lies across the hearth with its ends resting between the keystones, and which can be moved toward the front or back of the hearth as required. It is a part of the small rectangular furnace called the "ore-hearth," used in the smelting of lead.
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(by extension, loosely) Wood exhibiting fungal bioluminescence; torchwood.
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A piece of metal fitted to the end of a gas pipe, with one or more small holes so arranged as to spread out the flame.
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A fireplace or heater whose flames are fuelled by combustible gas.
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(historical) A cylindrical burner connected to the gas main and used to light domestic fires.
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A lighted coal left smothered in embers overnight, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.
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A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
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(chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.
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A firefighter's multipurpose tool for breaking down doors, etc., having a claw (or fork), a blade, and a tapered pick.
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Obsolete spelling of hearth [The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.]
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A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
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A quantity (of something) contained within a fireplace.
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The area around a hearth; fireside.
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A rug placed in front of a fireplace, on the hearth.
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The area around the fireplace in the living-room of a family house.
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The area encompassing a hearth; fireplace.
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(by extension) The fireside, home life.
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(historical) A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
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(now chiefly dialectal) A recess beside a wide chimney-fireside.
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(historical) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
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A type of improvised stove, consisting of a can without the top and with openings near the bottom.
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A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
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A large fire that occurs in a house.
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A nook or corner beside an open fireplace; a chimney corner.
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(historical) The piece of metal heated in the fire for a box iron.
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steel filings used in fireworks.
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A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
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(obsolete, idiomatic) A troublemaker.
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Wood for lighting a fire; kindling.
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Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
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A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.
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(archaic) A match (used for making fire).
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Alternative form of log-burner [(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A woodburning stove, especially one used to heat a house.]
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(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A woodburning stove, especially one used to heat a house.
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A metal tool consisting of a long rod with a bulbous end that is made hot in a fire, then plunged into some material (such as pitch or a liquid) to melt or heat it.
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A device that creates 'logs' out of burnable waste; the device encases the burnable waste within a newspaper wrapping by the use of a special tube and plunger.
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The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney.
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A shelf that is affixed to the wall above a fireplace.
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A shelf above a fireplace.
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The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
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(archaic) A beam of wood over the opening of an open fireplace, from which items were hung.
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A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
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kindling, typically used in the morning, hence the name.
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(dialectal) Kindling used to light a fire in the morning.
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(of a chimney) The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
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A home hearth comprising a hearthstone alone, as opposed to one comprising a hearthstone and fireplace or oven.
adj
Describing an open hearth in the home, especially in premodern centuries when such hearths were more common.
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A low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced.
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Material that feeds a fire.
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A friction match that contains little or no sulphur.
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A stove that burns compressed wood or biomass pellets.
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A torch made from pine wood.
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A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
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(historical) A case of strong paper filled with a composition of nitre, sulphur, and mealed powder, used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.
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Any portable stove marketed under the Primus trademark that may use also other fuels, particularly butane/propane gas ("camping gas").
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A fire-resistant channel for a burner in a boiler or furnace.
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A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
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The back of an open fire-hearth, in medieval halls.
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a fire poker with a perpendicular piece of iron at the end for raking ashes through the grate.
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A light portable furnace for heating rivets.
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A form of firebars, where sections of the grate may be rocked or tipped to break up clinker within the fire, or to drop the fire after a day's work.
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A common type of gas burner in which the shape of the flame resembles a rosette, with gas issuing from a series of openings arranged radially around a center.
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The starting point of a fire.
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The chamber of a blast furnace.
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(beekeeping) A small fire chamber with attached bellows used to blow smoke on a hive to pacify the bees before the beekeeper works on it.
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A board suspended before a fireplace to prevent the smoke from coming out into the room.
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A type of flare or combustion device sometimes used as a distress signal.
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A device for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
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A fictional bear dressed as a ranger who acts as a symbol of forest fire prevention, with the slogan "Only you can prevent forest fires."
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Kerosene flares with round bottoms and wicks in a protected cage. They were once used to mark highway construction sites and functioned as utility flares.
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(mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
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(of a firebox, boiler etc.) fitted with staybolts.
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A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
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A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
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A match coated with a combustible compound that can continue to burn even in a strong wind.
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A fire made from a single log partially split and then set upright, with tinder and kindling placed inside the split.
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(chemistry) A variant of the Bunsen burner that produces a hotter flame by means of a conical lower section that regulates the influx of air.
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A tube for withdrawing a sample of liquid from a cask.
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A bamboo torch used as a party decoration and in tiki culture.
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Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
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Alternative spelling of tinderbox [(historical) A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire.]
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Alternative spelling of tinderbox [(historical) A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire.]
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(by extension) A place that is so dry and hot that there is danger of fire.
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(mostly plural) An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands.
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A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers for kindling matchlocks.
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A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.
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Alternative form of tuyere [A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge]
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Alternative spelling of tuyere [A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge]
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A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway of a blast furnace in which the dam stands.
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A long-burning wood fire that burns from the top to the bottom.
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(dated) A kind of match or fusee for lighting cigars.
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A fire maintained during the night by people keeping watch.
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(metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
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A burner in which the combustion of a mixture of air and gas or vapour is used to heat to incandescence a mantle composed of thoria and ceria. The mantle is made by soaking a "stocking" in a solution of nitrates of thorium and cerium, drying, and, for use, igniting to burn the thread and convert the nitrates into oxides, which remain as a fragile ash.
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(UK) A heater or stove that burns wood for fuel.
adj
Alternative form of woodburning. [Designed to burn wood.]
adj
Designed to burn wood.
adj
That uses wood as fuel.
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A stove that burns wood, or is designed to do so
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