Firelight vs Firefight - What's the difference?
firelight | firefight |
The light of a fire, such as from a campfire or fireplace.
* 1891 — , ch XXXI
* 1936 — , ch 8
* 1959 — , ch IV
As nouns the difference between firelight and firefight
is that firelight is the light of a fire, such as from a campfire or fireplace while firefight is a skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.firelight
English
Noun
- He sat on by the cheerful firelight thrown from a bundle of green ash-sticks laid across the dogs; the sticks snapped pleasantly, and hissed out bubbles of sap from their ends.
- He glanced continually at the diamond-panes of the casement, gleaming dimly in the firelight , and cocked his ear toward the door, as if half expecting to hear the pad of furtive feet in the corridor without.
- Dane was startled out of the contemplation of his misery to see the medic on his knees before their row of canteens, the vial of water purifier held to the firelight for a closer inspection.
