back-brand

On the hearth, in front of a back-brand to give substance, blazed a fire of thorns, that crackled ‘like the laughter of the fool.’

Wessex Tales 2006

The back-brand had burnt itself in two, and ceased to flame; the light which he had placed on the mantelpiece had nearly gone out.

Wessex Tales 2006

On the hearth, in front of a back-brand to give substance, blazed a fire of thorns, that crackled 'like the laughter of the fool.'

Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884

The back-brand had burnt itself in two, and ceased to flame; the light which he had placed on the mantelpiece had nearly gone out.

Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884

The log which was to form the back-brand of the evening fire was the uncleft trunk of a tree, so unwieldy that it could be neither brought nor rolled to its place; and accordingly two men were to be observed dragging and heaving it in by chains and levers as the hour of assembly drew near.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

The log which was to form the back-brand of the evening fire was the uncleft trunk of a tree, so unwieldy that it could be neither brought nor rolled to its place; and accordingly two men were to be observed dragging and heaving it in by chains and levers as the hour of assembly drew near.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874