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grassfire

grassfire \grass"fire`\ n. An uncontrolled fire in a grassy area.

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grassfire

n. A fire burning over grass or grassland

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grassfire

n. an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area

Usage examples of "grassfire".

I know you've kep a smile on your face when it must have hurt like a grassfire in your heart.

Yowling among the grassfires, two of them dashed out of the circle and fled across the savannah.

Poteenville Volunteer One, aided by pumpers from Statler County, were controlling the grassfires around the school.

The fires, both of them, must be getting close to the gorge, coming like a pincer movement, the one in the River Red Gum moving remorselessly up the Reedy Creek tributary and the grassfire coming up the other end of the gorge.

At the time I thought it was probably just a grassfire, maybe in Harrison or Stoneham, but now I wonder.