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Fire watching   /fˈaɪər wˈɑtʃɪŋ/   Listen
Fire watching

noun
1.
(during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky.





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"Fire watching" Quotes from Famous Books



... accepted Charley's suggestions, cheerfully, and he and the captain departed to carry out their own task. When they returned laden with the balance of the canoe's cargo, Walter was standing idly by the fire watching ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... in, Waldo sat before the fire watching a pot which simmered there, with his slate and pencil in his hand; his father sat at the table buried in the columns of a three-weeks-old newspaper; and the stranger lay stretched on the bed in the corner, fast asleep, his mouth open, his great limbs ...
— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner


Words linked to "Fire watching" :   Great Britain, Britain, UK, U.K., civil defense, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland


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