单词 | fire bag |
释义 | fire bagn. 1. a. A bag containing essential items for use or retrieval in the event of fire. Now rare. ΚΠ 1748 Gen. Advertiser 10 May Lost, At the late Fire,..A Fire Bag,..suppos'd to contain sundry Things. 1769 Mass. Gaz. 2 Feb. Some silk ‘lately found in a fire-bag’. 2012 L. Masterton Surviving Wildfire 126 I remember getting the duffel bag that we used for our fire bag out of the garage where it spent every fire season and making sure that our important papers and documents were in there. b. Chiefly U.S. A bag containing items for kindling a fire, esp. one used by American Indians.In quot. 1844: a bag for carrying shot; cf. fire n. 10a(a). ΚΠ 1821 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 456/1 The traders..kindle fires of immense magnitude... Every man carries his fire-bag, containing all the necessary apparatus. 1844 Bp. of Montreal Jrnl. (1845) 103 The powder-horn and the fire-bag, in which the shot is carried loose, are slung upon belts crossing each other upon the breast. 1868 R. M. Ballantyne Silver Lake ii. 7 His wallet and fire-bag—the latter being a beautifully ornamented pouch, which Indians and fur-traders wear at their belts, for the purpose of containing the materials for producing fire, besides pipes and tobacco. 1892 Harper's Mag. Mar. 497/1 The Sioux..each carried a fire-bag, a quiver, and a brightly painted shield. 1938 Boys' Life Oct. 8/3 The bizarre display of beaded buckskin, firebags, shining tomahawks and other redskin trophies on the walls. 1994 E. S. Rogers in E. S. Rogers & D. B. Smith Aboriginal Ont. vii. 145 The Algonquians..decorated their top hats with feathers and carried a pipe-tomahawk and fire bag. 2. A small chimney or flue inside a kiln into which flames from a hearth or fireplace are guided on their way to the body of the kiln. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > [noun] > part of watch1606 fire door1765 fire bag1796 watch-ball1839 ring wall1863 1796 Monthly Mag. Dec. 882/2 The invention consists in such a..circuitous course of the flues or fire bags, as to occasion the course of the flame..to pass three times through the interior of the oven. 1880 U.S. Patent 233,230 1/2 From the bottom of the burning-chamber rise a series of fire-bags, E, one over each of the fire-places. 1922 Brick & Clay Rec. 14 Nov. 725/1 We found that the kilns could be set and burned to better advantage if equipped with the square fire bag. 1999 Guardian 19 Aug. i. 9/4 Visitors will be able to enter the oven to inspect firebags, dampers, springer blocks and other niceties of construction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1748 |
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