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firewater
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fire-water , "alcoholic liquor," 1826, American English, supposedly from speech of American Indians, from fire (n.) + water (n.1).
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The Firewater , 1994 is Hardi Volmer ´s history-based thriller. "Tulivesi" is based on the historical situation in Estonia at the end of 1920-s and sets a precedent of the struggle between the Estonian government and the spirit-smugglers. This film is dedicated ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 High proof alcohol, especially whiskey (qualifier: especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans). 2 High temperature hydraulic condensate discharged from industrial boilers.
Usage examples of firewater.
French military outpost engaged in nefarious deals, trading firewater for English scalps.
With the help of the squaws, he slung the tusks atop the ATV, then emptied the kegs of firewater into the gas tank, and cleaned and restacked the back of the truck.
Why, out there, firewater is so common, folks drink it morning, noon and night.
Lotsa Smoke tied the rope around the first barrel of firewater and heaved.
The other squaws pulled it into the city, then they threw the rope back over the wall, croaked like a frog and chirped like a cricket, and Lotsa Smoke sent up the second barrel of firewater, and at last hurried over.
Back in the Indian villages, an ever-increasing majority became convinced that firewater and gluttonous paleface civilization were synonymous, that they must rise and retake their land forcibly, killing in the process as many drunken renegades as they came across.
It was a large, brilliant firewater opal that sparkled with its internal energy.
The dragon scooped up the firewater opal, breaking the chain that held it, and flew away to his lair somewhere on the land.
My only chance at recovering some share of my hopes was to recover the firewater opal, and the chance of that seemed remote indeed.
Draco Dragon who killed her husband and stole the firewater opal, and he resides at Mount Etamin, which is one of a constellation of peaks in dragon country, near the Region of Air.
He had the other firewater opal, you see, and a pair of those is worth ten times as much as either one alone, so we agreed they should be together.
In addition, he had managed to settle the matter of the firewater opal, because Draco was going to give it back.
Dolph made it back safely in body and mind, there would still be the matter of the firewater opal.
Marrow, abruptly nervous about prospects, resumed his quest for the firewater opal.
Therefore, in gratitude, I will give you the other firewater opal with the first.