central-fire

[ sen-truhl-fahyuhr ]

adjective

1. center-fire.

Word History and Origins

Origin of central-fire¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Down went the cartridge and rammed home, almost as quick as a partridge-shooter could have charged his patent “central fire.”

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Another explanation is that it merely represented a man warming himself before the central fire.

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My quilt and my pelisse and my cloak were spread out so that I might lie spokewise, with my feet towards the central fire.

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He held that hell was in the centre of the earth, and that God supplied the central fire with earth by a miracle.

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Only now does the central fire begin to glow once more through the ashes which have been heaped above it.

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