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Meanings of back-fire in English
A fire set intentionally for purposes of forest or land management, farming, prairie restoration or greenhouse gas abatement.
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Usage of back-fire in English
1
A back-fire is a fire started for the purpose of stopping another.
2
If his trail-break was built in time, Dave meant to back-fire above it.
3
He had already run a little back-fire to protect the tents and the chuck-wagon.
4
Sounded as though there was a tremendous back-fire, or else the muffler blew up.
5
Dave did not dare back-fire on account of the wind.
6
They were trapped by the back-fire in a labyrinth from which there appeared no escape.
7
Again they went along the line of their back-fire.
8
I reckon it must 'a' been mighty bad up there when the back-fire caught you.
9
We kinder was afeared.... Say, kid, thet back-fire, now.
10
That consolation was merely a back-fire in the rest of the conflagration that raged in him.
11
The planets tell us that this is likely to back-fire on Jude in a big way!
12
Why not, in frontier parlance, start a back-fire that would make Tripoli too hot for Yusuf?
13
The engine had suffered a regular spasm of coughing and one back-fire, so the child informed me.
14
Their back-fire ate its way into the wind much faster, and the real fire came on slower.
15
Party workers said there would be uproar if the court treated the pair harshly, which would back-fire on Modi.
16
Thet back-fire did the biz.
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