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- noun The skills of fire safety, fire prevention, etc.
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Examples
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Upon the walls of their engine house hung trophies for superior firemanship won in nearly every city in the State.
Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne
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Upon the walls of their engine house hung trophies for superior firemanship won in nearly every city in the State.
Hanover; or, The Persecution of the Lowly. Story of the Wilmington Massacre 1863
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It was a joint effort between the City of Stillwater, which was looking for a second location, and Oklahoma A&M College, which needed a place to house the students of its new firemanship training program.
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"You said it; and I've got pioneering, pathfinding, athletics, and then come the ten that I selected myself; angling, bugling, carpentry, conservation or whatever you call it, and cycling and firemanship and music hath charms, not, and seamanship and signaling.
Tom Slade on Mystery Trail Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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