fireblast
See also: fire blast
English
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[edit]fireblast (plural fireblasts)
- A fiery explosion.
- A blight affecting plants, giving them a scorched appearance (as if burnt by fire).
- 1808, Thomas Potts, The British Farmer's Cyclopaedia or, Complete Agricultural Dictionary[1], Scatcherd and Letterman, page 96:
- Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts.