Meanings
- uncountableSynonym of seafire.
I see it blue-green and mostly a seascape, and lit with marfire from within.
1988, Jennifer Stone, Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television1 more example
Do you think that the marfire does as much harm when it is […]? The drift net cannot make anything near the amount of marfire that the trawl net makes.
1968, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Fisheries, page 298Synonyms: seafire
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of seafire.
Origin
Dialectally, the form mer-fire is also recorded; the first element is probably from (or in any case cognate to) Old Norse marr (“sea”) or Old English mere; the second element is fire.
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marfire. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marfire
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