prairie fire

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a great grass-fire that sweeps across tinder-dry prairie (def. 2a).

See: prairie(def. 2a)

Quotations

1813

[We have been a prairie of fire to the white men.]

1859

Unless driven in by extensive prairie fires, as in the present year, they for the most part give us a pretty wide berth.

1960

He rode to Gull Lake to inform us that our home and belongings had been burned by a terrible prairie fire.

1965

Much to the organizer's astonishment the idea caught on like a prairie fire.