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fire-cures

fire-cures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fire-cure.

Meaning of fire-cure

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.

Questions about fire-cures

What is fire-cures the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fire-cures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fire-cure.

Words near fire-cures in the dictionary

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

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