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fire·box (-bäks′)

noun

  1. the place for the fire in a locomotive engine, stove, etc.
  2. Obsolete a tinderbox

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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