fireblast
nounEtymology From fire + blast.
1
A fiery explosion.
2
A blight affecting plants, giving them a scorched appearance (as if burnt by fire).
- Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts.1808, Thomas Potts, The British Farmer's Cyclopaedia or, Complete Agricultural Dictionary, Scatcherd and Letterman, page 96:
- Related terms
- firebolt, fireburst