fireblast

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Etymology

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From fire +‎ blast.

Noun

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fireblast (plural fireblasts)

  1. A fiery explosion.
  2. 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.
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