fire line

noun

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

The crew would start in the morning, suited up in fire-resistant clothing and hard hats, and build a fire line.

With a few clicks, he laid four tiny virtual fires along the real fire’s edge, on the far side of the fire line that had blocked its progress.

We literally cut a fire line around one of the sheriff’s homes.

My house was always outside the fire line, but one area we likely saved was surrounded on three sides.

The story, inevitably, returns her to the fire line at a later point.

McGettigan asked, at the beginning of what would be a rapid-fire line of questioning.

Your job is to watch a fire line that runs along this side of the base of that point yonder.

The fire line looked like some old wood-road, where trees had been cut out and brush cleared away.

What I had164 to do was to run back and forth along the fire line, crushing the dragon's claws.

By the time the fire-line had advanced to the steeper slopes it was one vast U about three miles long.

Then together they bore him, now unconscious, slowly down below the first fire-line.

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