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Definition of Fireguard
1. Noun. A narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire.
2. Noun. A metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks).
Definition of Fireguard
1. Noun. A mesh screen around a fire to prevent sparks or falling embers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fireguard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fireguard
Literary usage of Fireguard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American law reports annotated (1920)
"It is clear that the legislature intended that in every respect, save in the
method of selection, the fireguard should exactly take the place of the city ..."
2. The General Ordinances of the North-West Territories: In Force September 1 by Northwest Territories (1907)
"(3) For the purpose of ploughing any fireguard as in the next preceding subsection
provided and of freeing from inflammable matter the land between such ..."
3. The Slaveholder Abroad; Or, Billy Buck's Visit, with His Master, to England by Ebenezer Starnes, Joseph Jones (1860)
"Elizabeth Ellis, inmate of the union, deposed that deceased was playing with the
fireguard in the day room, when the nurse Oldham was poking the fire. ..."
4. Eugenics and Other Evils by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1922)
"It does not see that they have got a fire ; it only punishes them for not having
a fireguard. It does not even occur to it to provide the fireguard. ..."
5. Western Law Reporter (Canada) and Index-digest by Edward Betley Brown, L. S. Le Vernois, Esten Kenneth Williams (1908)
"Under this order the fireguard was to be 300 feet in width extending from the
... From the centre of the right of way to the outside of the fireguard would ..."
6. The Medical Times and Gazette (1861)
"... but there is no difficulty in purchasing and placing on the bars a fireguard,
which is within the reach of all classes, of small cost, and might be made ..."
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