Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poker.
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Examples
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At the end of the bridge a straggler struck a match and flung it lightly in the river, the disc of his cigar a fire-point in the shadows.
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple
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A stocky young man behind the fire-point emerged from the darkness and climbed briskly into the tonneau.
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple
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It is the thin, wavering fire-point of all our struggles after purity and eternity.
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917
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