burnfire

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"It may ha' been wicked, but there 'twas, an' the thought kep' arter me, till all I could think of was the chist; an' byme-by I says to Mary Ellen, one mornin', ' Le's open it to-day an' make a burnfire !'"
"[…] the town of Owegea was made a burnfire of to Grace our Meating our General Course from Tiago to Choconant […]"

An alteration (due to its association with burn) of Early Modern English boonfire, bondfire, bounfire (“bonfire”). More at bonfire.

burnfires (plural)

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