firestick

And for Brown Bess, we'll have a cool firestick with ...

zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery zornhau 2008

Warren's spokesman Larry Ross said the sap of a firestick plant got into Warren's eyes when he wiped his brow while gardening.

Firestick Plant INJURES Pastor Rick Warren, Sends Him To Hospital 2010

Yes, I'll admit it, I used a firestick this year, and just after reading Stafford's poem "animals full of light/walk through the forest/toward someone aiming a gun/loaded with darkness."

a recent letter. What do you think? dudemanflab 2008

He carried a firestick, a small bag on his back, and some bomarengs under his left arm.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

Being a mile or two ahead of our party in a thick brush, I came suddenly upon three men; two ran off with the greatest speed; the third, who was older and a little lame, first threw his firestick at me, and next (seeing me still advance) a waddie, but with such agitation, that though not more than a dozen paces distant, he missed both me and my horse.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

A few gestures mimed placement of invisible kindling, whirling a nonexistent firestick, other actions not so transparently pantomimic-and then the barest wisp of smoke sought the flue.

The Magic May Return Niven, Larry 1981

This weapon I bring you ... is far greater than your firestick.

A Private Little War 1966

Fewkes called this the New Fire Ceremony, and in the course of the eight-day ceremonial the kindling of new fire with the primitive firestick does take place.

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

I suppose, and was startled; anyhow, never thinking what I was doing, I picked up a firestick out of the fire and flung it at the 'possum.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

Before taking this step, however, I rubbed off all the clayey coating on my skin, trimmed my hair and beard to a respectable length by means of a firestick, and threw away my bow, which was now my only remaining weapon; then I marched boldly into the camp.

Adventures of Louis de Rougemont Fitzgerald, F Scott 1899