单词 | fire faggot |
释义 | > as lemmasfire faggot fire faggot n. now rare a bundle of firewood; also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > kindling hostry faggot1594 chat1670 fire faggota1722 hostry-wood1738 kindling wood1783 kindler1791 fire kindling1849 crack1851 split1858 a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 366 I hold hedging-wood and fire-faggots should be cut in October. 1776 J. Barclay Select Coll. Spiritual Songs xix. 44 I am the Vine, the branches ye... Separate at all from me, In whom ye live and move Ye nothing can, nor do, nor be; But must fire-faggots prove. 1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. I. iv. 358 Piles of fire fagots, mixed with bundles of pitch and flax..were in readiness. 1937 Folk-lore 48 429/2 Fire faggots in connection with the Fallas festival at Valencia. < as lemmas |
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