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fireblast

noun

Etymology

From fire + blast.

  1. inherited from *blēstuz✻ — “blowing, blast”
  2. inherited from *blāstu✻
  3. inherited from blǣst — “blowing, blast”
  4. inherited from blast
  5. compounded as fireblast — “fire + blast”

Definitions

  1. A fiery explosion.

  2. A blight affecting plants, giving them a scorched appearance (as if burnt by fire).

    • Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fireblast. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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