firefront
English
Alternative forms
- fire-front
- fire front
Etymology
fire + front
Noun
firefront (plural firefronts)
- The leading edge of a wildfire
- 2009 January 22, Matthew Schulz, Anne Wright, “Towns of Woodend, Malmsbury and Taradale under urgent threat from fire”, in Herald Sun:
- “A section of the firefront was stopped when it ran into that part of the forest where all of the light fuel had been burned a few months before,” Mr Dalton said.
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Anagrams
- frontfire