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cookfire

noun

Etymology

From cook + fire.

  1. inherited from *péh₂wr̥✻
  2. inherited from *fōr✻ — “fire”
  3. inherited from *fuir✻
  4. inherited from fȳr — “fire”
  5. inherited from fyr
  6. formed as cookfire — “cook + fire”

Definitions

  1. A fire used for cooking food.

    • “Next evening when he was picking up buffalo chips to make a cookfire, that ram got him.
    • "Well, we do need to keep some of it on hand, donchaknow. For fueling the cookfires and all that rot."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA