Will-fire

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Noun
  1. 1
    The need-fire. Scotland, uncountable

    "A few stones were piled together in the barnyard, and woodcoals having been laid thereon, the fuel was ignited by will-fire."

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"A few stones were piled together in the barnyard, and woodcoals having been laid thereon, the fuel was ignited by will-fire."

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