cookfire

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English

Etymology

From cook +‎ fire.

Noun

cookfire (plural cookfires)

  1. A fire used for cooking food.
    • 1978 December 16, John Fischer, “Henry Quiller's Sheep”, in The New York Times:
      “Next evening when he was picking up buffalo chips to make a cookfire, that ram got him.
    • 2005, Harry Turtledove, Alternate Generals III, unnumbered page:
      "Well, we do need to keep some of it on hand, donchaknow. For fueling the cookfires and all that rot."