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firebreaks

n. (plural of firebreak English)

Usage examples of "firebreaks".

As he remembered, the two firebreaks that bracketed the big hill on either side ran all the way to that back paved road.

They had no hope of saving the immediately surrounding blocks, but they would try to contain the inferno by creating firebreaks ahead of the flames in a line running north from the Circus Maximus, then due eastward to the Caelian.