Definitions
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- noun obsolete a
fire chief - noun obsolete a
fireman - adjective Which faces a
fire ; which lies in the direction of a fire; etc. - adverb Toward a
fire
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Examples
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Saburo [u] zaémon, _hatamoto_ in the land, and now in office at the fireward of the palace.
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At length she said very earnestly, still staring fireward, while her cheeks took on a slight access of colour:
A Court of Inquiry 1912
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For some years previous to his death, he was one of the Overseers of the Poor, and was a fireward in 1784-89.
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Lovering was a prominent member of the Charitable Mechanic Association, was many years a selectman and a fireward under the old town government of Boston, and was also a member of the first
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On the 26th of Auguft, about twilight, a fmall bonfire was kindled in King-ftreet, Bofton, and fur - rounded only by a few boys and children; but when the fireward endeavoured to extinguilh it, he was whifpered, by an unknown perfon, to defiil; which he not re - garding, received a blow on his
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