fire blast

Noun

fireblast (plural fireblasts)

1. A fiery explosion.
2. A blight affecting plants, giving them a scorched appearance (as if burnt by fire).
   • Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts.1808, Thomas Potts, The British Farmer's Cyclopaedia or, Complete Agricultural Dictionary, Scatcherd and Letterman, page 96