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Definition of Fire tower
1. Noun. A watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires.
Definition of Fire tower
1. Noun. A watchtower to search for fires in a forest. ¹
2. Noun. In a high building, a stairway protected by several inches of concrete and entered through a kind of "air lock" that prevents the smoke to enter inside it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Tower
Literary usage of Fire tower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Model Housing Law by Lawrence Veiller, Russell Sage Foundation (1914)
"... ALCONY SOLID FLOOR UTSIDE BLD'G. LINE FIGURE 36 fire tower § 52. FIRE-ESCAPES.
All fire-escapes hereafter erected on ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"Vestibule Fire-Tower Stairway.—While the arrangement just described is ...
The best possible design. therefore, for a fire-tower is that indicated in Fig. ..."
3. A Tennessean Abroad; Or, Letters from Europe, Africa, and Asia by Randal William MacGavock (1854)
"From the lofty fire tower of Pera, we had a commanding view of all Constantinople,
the Golden Horn, and the Bosphorus, which I will describe in my feeble ..."
4. Fire Prevention and Fire Protection as Applied to Building Construction: A by Joseph Kendall Freitag (1912)
"In some cases, fire tower stairs, either one or more, form the only means of ...
fire tower stairs with balconies, so arranged as to serve two buildings, ..."
5. The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine and Celtic Repertory (1832)
"... in the county of Clare, where there is a fire tower. Fert-agh, the fire of
the cemetery ; Glen-da-loch, the vale of fire, where two round towers remain; ..."
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