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