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walking fires

walking fires is the plural of walking fire.

Meaning of walking fire

Noun

walking fire (countable and uncountable, plural walking fires)

  1. (obsolete) Will o' the wisp
    • Prithe Nunckle be content, this is a naughty night to swim in, now a little fire in a wild field, were like an old leachers heart, a small sparke, all the rest in bodie cold, looke here comes a walking fire.1603, William Shakespeare, M. William Shak-speare: His True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King LEAR and his three Daughters.
  2. A line of infantry equipped with automatic weapons advancing in a coordinated attack.
    • To counter this the French introduced 'walking fire'. The infantry used man-carried automatic weapons to keep the defender pinned down with a continuous hail of bullets for those last dangerous yards.1975, War Monthly, numbers 10-21

Questions about walking fires

What is walking fires the plural of?
Walking fires is the plural of walking fire.

Words near walking fires in the dictionary

  1. walking fan
  2. walking fans
  3. walking fern
  4. walking ferns
  5. walking fire
  6. walking fires
  7. walking fish
  8. walking fishes
  9. walking frame
  10. walking frames
  11. walking free

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