Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A disease of hops, chiefly occurring toward the latter periods of their growth, in which they appear as if burned by fire.
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Examples
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Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. ''
On Donne's Poetry 1927
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The "Novelty" ran at times in good style, but its bellows, for making a fire-blast, were defective and repeatedly gave out, causing delay.
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Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.
Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905
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But his words died out on the waste and the fire-blast made them vain.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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And the gold spurs flame on his heels, and the fire-blast lifteth his hair;
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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And the gold spurs flame on his heels, and the fire-blast lifteth his hair;
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865
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But his words died out on the waste and the fire-blast made them vain.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865
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There was none to hinder Gudrun, and the fire-blast scathed her nought,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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And the heaped-up ice was his mattock, and the fire-blast was his man,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865
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And the heaped-up ice was his mattock, and the fire-blast was his man,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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