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Definition of Firebreak
1. Noun. A narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire.
Definition of Firebreak
1. Noun. An area cleared of all flammable material to prevent a fire from spreading across it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Firebreak
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firebreak
Literary usage of Firebreak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Statutes of the Province of Newfoundland by Newfoundland (1893)
"Church hill firebreak from Water street to Duckworth street shall be sixty ...
From Duckworth street to Queen's road the said firebreak shall be fifty feet ..."
2. Pamphlets on Forestry in Minnesota (1909)
"As a result of service activity in this direction, most of the railroads undertook
some firebreak construction in 1911. Altogether they spent a good deal of ..."
3. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International Conference by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"Studies are now being conducted to develop alternative techniques of firebreak
construction that will not remove surface vegetation. ..."
4. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1902)
"Very often by clearing up and widening the course of a brook a veiy efficient
firebreak may be made which will supplement other firebreaks. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon by Oregon Supreme Court (1899)
"... along and parallel to the defendant's track as a firebreak, to prevent such
fires as might be caused by defendant's engines from overrunning his land. ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"LEGAL firebreak. A legal firebreak shall consist of я strip of land 200 feet
wide, plowed on either side and burned out inside the plowing. BeV. ..."
7. Principles of American Forestry by Samuel Bowdlear Green (1903)
"Very often by clearing up and widening the course of a brook, a very efficient
firebreak may be made which will supplement other firebreaks. ..."
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