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back-fire
CIDE DICTIONARY
back-fire, v. i.
- To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Of a Bunsen or similar air-fed burner, to light so that the flame proceeds from the internal gas jet instead of from the external jet of mixed gas and air. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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