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kindle-fires

kindle-fires is the plural of kindle-fire.

Meaning of kindle-fire

Noun

kindle-fire (plural kindle-fires)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) Something, such as a person or event, that initiates events or incites a response.
    • This is the Whiſperer that ſeparates chief friends, and makes thoſe that have drunk of our Cup, to lift up the heel upon us; and with whom we have taken ſweet counſel together, to plot our ruine, and give counfel gainſt our very life. In a word, ſuch a kindle-fire ſin is, that the flames it...1662, William Gurnall, chapter XXV, in Christian in Compleat Armour, volume 3, section 4, page 218

Questions about kindle-fires

What is kindle-fires the plural of?
Kindle-fires is the plural of kindle-fire.

Words near kindle-fires in the dictionary

  1. kindjals
  2. kindle
  3. kindle-coal
  4. kindle-coals
  5. kindle-fire
  6. kindle-fires
  7. kindled
  8. kindler
  9. Kindler syndrome
  10. kindlers
  11. kindles

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