To mend, make up, keep up, add fuel to, feed (a fire). Scottish in later use. See also bote, n., firebote, n.

To make up or add fuel to (a fire). Obsolete.

transitive. To add fuel to (a fire). Cf. earlier beet, v.

transitive. To feed, stir up, and poke the fire in (a furnace), to tend the furnace of (a boiler). Also, to feed or build up (a fire), and with up.

transitive. To put together, construct, compound. Formerly: †to lay and light (a fire) (obsolete). Subsequently: to add fuel to (a fire already…

. transitive. To cover (a fire) with tightly packed fuel so as to ensure continued slow burning. Frequently with up (also down). Also in…

To replenish (a fire) with fuel; to collect materials for burning. Frequently with up.

to stack up: to pile materials on, to make up (a fire).