fire line

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(AmE) a strip of land that has been cleared in order to stop a fire from spreading seealsoFIREBREAK

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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fire lineEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus fire lineEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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fire line