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bone-fire

bone-fire is the alternative spelling of bone fire.

Meaning of bone fire

Noun

bone fire (plural bone fires)

  1. A fire lit with bones instead of wood, so that when livestock were driven between two such fires the acrid smoke drove off parasites.

Forms of bone-fire

pluralbone-fires

Questions about bone-fire

What is bone-fire the alternative spelling of?
Bone-fire is the alternative spelling of bone fire.

Words near bone-fire in the dictionary

  1. bone-dry
  2. bone-eating snot flower
  3. bone-eating snot flower worm
  4. bone-eating snot flower worms
  5. bone-eating snot flowers
  6. bone-fire
  7. bone-fires
  8. bone-grubber
  9. bone-grubbers
  10. bone-hard
  11. bone-house wasp

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