单词 | firemaking |
释义 | > as lemmasfiremaking firemaking n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > setting on fire or alight > making or kindling of fire firemakingc1405 beeting1517 fire kindling1658 fire-lighting1825 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 922 Somme seyde it was along on the fir makyng. 1648 J. Sterne Confirmation & Discov. Witch-craft 41 He confessed he oftentimes arose out of his bed, and made a fire, and lay down by it to let them suck his blood; which rising out of his bed, and fire making, his wife averred to be truth. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ix. 228 The art of fire-making. 2002 J. Cartwright White Lightning vi. 44 My father claimed..to have learned from the Bushmen the art of firemaking with sticks and dried dung. < as lemmas |
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