fireblast

See also: fire blast

English

Alternative forms

• fire blast

Etymology

From fire +‎ blast.

Noun

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.

Related terms

• firebolt
• fireburst

Anagrams

• firstable