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cookfire

cookfire noun: a fire used for cooking food.

Noun

cookfire (plural cookfires)

  1. A fire used for cooking food.
    • “Next evening when he was picking up buffalo chips to make a cookfire, that ram got him.1978 December 16, John Fischer, “Henry Quiller's Sheep”, in The New York Times
    • "Well, we do need to keep some of it on hand, donchaknow. For fueling the cookfires and all that rot."2005, Harry Turtledove, Alternate Generals III, unnumbered page

Forms of cookfire

pluralcookfires

Origin of cookfire

From cook + fire.

Questions about cookfire

What does cookfire mean?
Cookfire means a fire used for cooking food.
What part of speech is cookfire?
Cookfire is a noun.
What is the plural of cookfire?
The plural of cookfire is cookfires.

Words near cookfire in the dictionary

  1. cookest
  2. cooketh
  3. Cookeville
  4. cookey
  5. cookeys
  6. cookfire
  7. cookfires
  8. Cookham
  9. Cookhill
  10. cookhouse
  11. cookhouses

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