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fire tower

noun

  1. a tower, as on a mountain, from which a watch for fires is kept.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fire tower1

First recorded in 1820–30

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Example Sentences

The first time, a rainstorm pelted me while atop an open-air fire tower, soaking my stuff during a cold Vermont night.

Right now, forest fires are spotted from satellites or fire towers.

Thetis seems to have been a transposition of the same name, and was probably a Pharos, or Fire-tower, near the sea.

Also that a representation of it may now be seen upon "the fire-tower of Brechin."

"The fire-tower is on one side of her; the scullery closet on the other," said the matron.

There is an old Genoese tower between Pera and Galata which has been made into a fire-tower.

At any time now a fire patrol could take up his twenty-four-hour watch at the fire-tower.

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