Crossword-Solution: FIREBREAK
We have 3 clues for the answer “FIREBREAK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Blaze-stopping clear spot | 1 answer |
| Strip of land cleared to prevent a conflagration spreading | 1 answer |
| strip of cleared land to stop the advance of a fire | 1 answer |
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On the back of an animal
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ALSORD
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with FIREBREAK (5)
Hastily Wilbur tied up his horse on the burned-out area, seized his shovel, and started along the line of the fire, beating it out with the flat of his shovel where the flames were small, then going to lee of it he made a firebreak by turning up a narrow line of earth.
She crossed the firebreak and rode up over the ridge calling her cheery "Hoo-hoo-hoo!" "She's going to stay all night," exclaimed Ida Mary, seeing the small bag dangling from the saddlehorn.
With almost animal instinct I threw myself down in the firebreak, pressing hard against the ground to extinguish any smoldering sparks on my clothing, and lay panting, cooling in the dirt.
Scott and Greenleaf hated to miss the news but had to leave the campfire early in order to make the camp near the trout stream, where the firebreak crew was located, before dark.
Had Newman stuck to the swamp he might have out-distanced them, but at the north boundary he took to the firebreak and started eastward over the ridge.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).