watch fire
a fire maintained during the night as a signal and for providing light and warmth for guards.
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How to use watch fire in a sentence
Napoleon's watch-fire was kindled behind the old guard, between Reudnitz and Crottendorf.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan SloaneCamp Karonya was improving the moonlight night by sitting around a watch-fire, singing and telling stories.
Winona of the Camp Fire | Margaret WiddemerPlater, benumbed with cold (it is himself who gives us the account), had drawn off his boots to warm his feet at the watch-fire.
History of the Great Reformation, Volume IV | J. H. Merle D'AubignIt is a watch–fire, and our foes are waking up to warm themselves and to keep their watch.
The Matabele Campaign | R. S. S. Baden-PowellFar away a red point rose and fell in the darkness—a watch-fire of the enemy upon the further shore.
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago | Arthur Conan Doyle
British Dictionary definitions for watch fire
a fire kept burning at night as a signal or for warmth and light by a person keeping watch
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