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