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Meaning of burnfire | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A bonfire.

nonstandard

Examples

“It may ha' been wicked, but there 'twas, an' the thought kep' arter me, till all I could think of was the chist; an' byme-by I says to Mary Ellen, one mornin', ' Le's open it to-day an' make a burnfire !'”

“[…] the town of Owegea was made a burnfire of to Grace our Meating our General Course from Tiago to Choconant […]”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Burnford Burngullow Burnham Burnham Green Burnham Market Burnham Norton