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Fire watching   /fˈaɪər wˈɑtʃɪŋ/   Listen
Fire watching

noun
1.
(during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky.





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"Fire watching" Quotes from Famous Books



... rap startled Job as he sat by the fire watching the logs crackle and thinking of by-gone days, while the rain poured without. He opened the door, and saw Mike Hennessy, dripping wet and with ...
— The Transformation of Job - A Tale of the High Sierras • Frederick Vining Fisher


Words linked to "Fire watching" :   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, civil defense, United Kingdom, UK, Britain, U.K., Great Britain


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