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marfire

marfire noun: synonym of seafire.

Noun

marfire (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of seafire.
    • Do you think that the marfire does as much harm when it is […]? The drift net cannot make anything near the amount of marfire that the trawl net makes.1968, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Fisheries, page 298
    • I see it blue-green and mostly a seascape, and lit with marfire from within.1988, Jennifer Stone, Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television
    Synonyms:
    seafire

Synonyms of marfire

Origin of marfire

Dialectally, the form mer-fire is also recorded; the first element is probably from (or in any case cognate to) Old Norse marr (“sea”) or Old English mere; the second element is fire.

Questions about marfire

What does marfire mean?
Marfire means synonym of seafire.
What part of speech is marfire?
Marfire is a noun.

Words near marfire in the dictionary

  1. Marfak
  2. Marfan syndrome
  3. Marfan syndromes
  4. marfanoid
  5. Marfik
  6. marfire
  7. Marfleet
  8. MARFOR
  9. MARFORs
  10. Marfrancisco
  11. marfuraquinocin

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