needfire

How to use needfire in a sentence

• needfire was then obtained by friction, and all the fires were rekindled from what was regarded as the sacred flame.

  The Mysteries of All Nations | James Grant

• The last time the “needfire” was used in the Keswick neighbourhood, Mr. William Wilson says, was in 1841.

  Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland | Daniel Scott

• The term “needfire” seems to be a corruption of “neatfire,” neat cattle being an old and common term.

  Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland | Daniel Scott

• I never heard of the use of the needfire in the Marsh, though it was, I believe, used on the wolds not many miles off.

  Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. | Sir James George Frazer

• As thou knowest, it seemed to me that I was watching two sparkles from the extinguished needfire wheel.

  The Dove in the Eagle's Nest | Charlotte M. Yonge