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Definition of Brush fire
1. Noun. An uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brush Fire
Literary usage of Brush fire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outdoor Heritage by Harold Child Bryant (1919)
"Both foliage and wood burn easily and a brush fire is the most difficult of forest
fires to control. Only on the crests is there a chance of stopping such a ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"This marker appears to have been caused by a widespread brush fire which seemingly
swept ... Carbonaceous silt from this brush fire yielded There are two, ..."
3. Crucibles of Hazard: Mega-Cities and Disasters in Transition by James K. Mitchell (1999)
"Other risks (eg drought, coastal erosion, landslide, brush fire) also have ...
Warnings have improved considerably for tsunami, brush fire, floods, ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1904)
"(a) Make brush fire and burn thorn» off. (6) I use a pear burner. ... (/) I first
burn off the thorns with a dry brush fire, and then cut into small pieces ..."
5. Report by California Division of Forestry (1919)
"In the latter part of July of this year it demonstrated its efficiency by putting
out a brush fire set by a cigarette carelessly thrown from the Sycamore ..."
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