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portfires

portfires is the plural of portfire.

Meaning of portfire

Noun

portfire (plural portfires)

  1. (historical) A fuse for cannons or other artillery, consisting of strong paper filled with a nitre, sulphur, and mealed powder, used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

Questions about portfires

What is portfires the plural of?
Portfires is the plural of portfire.

Words near portfires in the dictionary

  1. Porteus
  2. Porteño
  3. Porteños
  4. Portfield
  5. portfire
  6. portfires
  7. portfolio
  8. portfolio career
  9. portfolio careers
  10. portfolio frontier
  11. portfolio worker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: portfires (page history and authors); portfire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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