watchfire
nounEtymology From watch + fire.
1
A fire maintained during the night by people keeping watch.
- Several praus went out in search of the pirates, sentinels were appointed, and watch-fires lighted on the beach to guard against the possibility of a night attack, though it was hardly thought they would be bold enough to attempt to plunder Dobbo.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 211: