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- noun Plural form of
firestick .
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Examples
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The Aborigines left fires burning, in camp hearths or hollow trees, everywhere they went, to be taken over by others or for the replenishment of faltering firesticks.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The Australians the white explorers and early settlers encountered invariably carried firesticks.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The Australians the white explorers and early settlers encountered invariably carried firesticks.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The Aborigines left fires burning, in camp hearths or hollow trees, everywhere they went, to be taken over by others or for the replenishment of faltering firesticks.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The locals here have never seen one, but many like myself have seen firesticks that were stolen from Europe.
Lord Conrads Crusade Frankowski, Leo 2005
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For them bulls would carry firesticks on their teeth to set your yards alight
Bulls of the Speewah 1997
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Aludra had everyone trying out her strikers, or firesticks, or whatever she would decide to call them next.
The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993
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Carefully she put the box of firesticks into one of the cabinets, next to two more.
The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993
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But the doorway was crowded with men and their firesticks.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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And you have ways as far above firesticks ... as the sky above our world.
A Private Little War 1966
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