单词 | fire block |
释义 | fire blockn. 1. A block of fire-resistant material, typically for use in or around a fire. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > quality of being incombustible > [noun] > making fire-proof > specific fire-proof materials firestone1399 fire blocka1636 fireclay1686 firebrick1749 fireboard1868 silicate boarda1884 a1636 J. Rogers Godly Expos. First Epist. Peter (1650) i. 19 I could be content to lie as a fire-block in Hell till the day of Judgement. 1636 R. James tr. Minucius Felix Octavius 93 The wodden God, a peice perchance of some vnhappy poste or fireblocke, is hung vp, cut, squard, and hewed. 1798 T. Connelly & T. Higgins New Dict. Spanish & Eng. Lang. II. 871/2 Fire-blocks for holding the plates whilst a heating in the furnace, or forge. 2009 Boys' Life Nov. 22/2 Part of their job was lugging truckloads of old fire blocks to be used to build stairs to provide public access to the site. 2. A piece of wood on which a spindle or drill is used to start a fire by friction; = fireboard n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > [noun] tindera700 foodOE eletc1200 firec1300 fuela1398 eldinga1400 firingc1487 betting1521 pabulum1675 fire block1834 fire mixture1855 alternative fuel1906 1834 F. Mahony tr. P. J. de Béranger Pop. Recoll. Buonaparte in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 598/2 I..made the kindling fireblocks shine. 1856 F. Galton Art of Trav. (ed. 2) 25 The ‘fire block’ is more important than the drill stick..[it] must be of wood with little grain, and of a middle degree of softness, and sufficiently inflammable. 1880 Missionary Herald (Cambridge, Mass.) Feb. 69 Fire was obtained by friction from a fire block, and in one case a chief used the shin-bone of one of the other chiefs who had been conquered. 1919 Boys' Life Apr. 51/1 Joe..whirled the drill round and round in its pit and made it bore slightly into the dry wood of the fire-block. 1996 D. G. White Alchemical Body vii. 216 When the Vedic sacrificer used a fire drill and block to create a spark..it was presumed that the fire produced was latent in the wood of the fire block. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1636 |
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