bone-fire

A form of bone fire — A fire lit with bones instead of wood, so that when livestock were driven between two such fires the acrid smoke drove off parasites.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounbone-fire (plural bone-fires)

plural bone-fires

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of bone fire.
Cite this entry
APA

bone-fire. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bone-fire

MLA

“bone-fire.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bone-fire. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bone-fire,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bone-fire.

Source: bone-fire on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.