Cookfire

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fire used for cooking food.

    "“Next evening when he was picking up buffalo chips to make a cookfire, that ram got him."

  2. 2
    a fire for cooking wordnet

Example

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"“Next evening when he was picking up buffalo chips to make a cookfire, that ram got him."

Etymology

From cook + fire.

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