long fire

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1921 quote.

Quotations

1900

Down the centre a long fire was built, while either side was carpeted with spruce boughs.

1921

The "long fires" were huge structures, twelve or fifteen feet in length, so that each man might bask in the heat without crowding his neighbour.