bone fire
bone fire · bone fires
A fire lit with bones instead of wood, so that when livestock were driven between two…A fire lit with bones instead of wood, so that when livestock were driven between two such fires the acrid smoke drove off parasites.
» Few modern people know how to make a bone fire.
Meaning
1 sensesA fire lit with bones instead of wood, so that when livestock were driven between two such fires the acrid smoke drove off parasites.
Examples
1 sentencesFew modern people know how to make a bone fire.
Origin
Inherited from Middle English banefire.Inherited from Middle English banefire.
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