Meanings of produce fire in English

They produce fire with great facility, and spread it in a wonderful manner.

In the East, whence I come, we produce fire just so.

To them we owe man's wonderful discovery of the power to produce fire.

The savages can produce fire by rubbing a soft piece of wood against a hard one.

They do lack the ability to produce fire.

Thus, by putting two or more billets of wood together, by rapid friction you produce fire.

Cannot you produce a fire (The natives always produce fire by rubbing two sticks together.)

Sometimes, however, it is almost a matter of life or death to be able to produce fire.

This slot is an indispensable feature, and without it all efforts to produce fire by wood-friction must fail.

There's lots of ways to produce fire spontaneously, with chemicals; and this woman Rolla could do it easily.

For rubbing a piece of cedar and buckeye together, they very quickly make the spark, and produce fire.

It is not every wood that will produce fire by this method; those most inflammable are the cotton-tree and the nabbuk.

The heat required to generate the spark is intense; and the mechanical action, being moderate, must, to produce fire, be in the highest degree concentrated.

After the introduction of the bow and string and the mouth-piece, it was found that the rapidly revolving tool excited friction enough to produce fire.

Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

Children under eight cannot really produce fire from flints or rubbing sticks, nor can they make useable woollen threads with which to do much weaving.