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fire-cure

fire-cure verb: to cure (tobacco) by exposing it directly to smoke from open woodfires.

Verb

fire-cure (third-person singular simple present fire-cures, present participle fire-curing, simple past and past participle fire-cured)

  1. (transitive) To cure (tobacco) by exposing it directly to smoke from open woodfires.

Forms of fire-cure

third-person singular presentfire-cures
present participlefire-curing
past participlefire-cured
pastfire-cured

Questions about fire-cure

What does fire-cure mean?
Fire-cure means to cure (tobacco) by exposing it directly to smoke from open woodfires.
What part of speech is fire-cure?
Fire-cure is a verb.
What is the past tense of fire-cure?
The past tense of fire-cure is fire-cured.

Words near fire-cure in the dictionary

  1. fire-capped tit
  2. fire-capped tits
  3. fire-cracker
  4. fire-crotch
  5. fire-crotches
  6. fire-cure
  7. fire-cured
  8. fire-cures
  9. fire-curing
  10. fire-devil
  11. fire-devils

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