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Gour :: Gour (n.) A fire worshiper; a Gheber or Gueber.

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire..

Snaphance :: Snaphance (n.) A spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached..

Firedrake :: Firedrake (n.) A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.

Inflammable :: Inflammable (a.) Capable of being easily set fire; easily enkindled; combustible; as, inflammable oils or spirits..

Bastion :: Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin..

Gunsmith :: Gunsmith (n.) One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.

Flake :: Flake (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash..

Kindle :: Kindle (v. t.) Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame..

Fire :: Fire (v. t.) To drive by fire.

Tread :: Tread (n.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building..

Fuel :: Fuel (n.) Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc..

Spiritless :: Spiritless (a.) Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire..

Fire-fanged :: Fire-fanged (a.) Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.

Tinder :: Tinder (n.) Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen..

Torrefy :: Torrefy (v. t.) To dry by a fire.

Hoecake :: Hoecake (n.) A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe..

Bridge :: Bridge (n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall..

Matchlock :: Matchlock (n.) An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match..

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