fire tower

noun

Origin of fire tower

First recorded in 1820–30

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The first time, a rainstorm pelted me while atop an open-air fire tower, soaking my stuff during a cold Vermont night.
An Ode to Cowboy Camping | awise | July 27, 2021 | Outside Online
Right now, forest fires are spotted from satellites or fire towers.
Trees power this alarm system for remote forest fires | Stephen Ornes | October 16, 2020 | Science News For Students
Thetis seems to have been a transposition of the same name, and was probably a Pharos, or Fire-tower, near the sea.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) | Jacob Bryant
Also that a representation of it may now be seen upon "the fire-tower of Brechin."
The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors | Kersey Graves
"The fire-tower is on one side of her; the scullery closet on the other," said the matron.
The Slayer Of souls | Robert Chambers

There is an old Genoese tower between Pera and Galata which has been made into a fire-tower.
Miscellanea | Juliana Horatia Ewing
At any time now a fire patrol could take up his twenty-four-hour watch at the fire-tower.
The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol | Lewis E. Theiss

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