Obs. [f. as prec. + FIRE. Cf. F. boute-feu.] = KINDLE-COAL.
1601. Daniel, Civ. Wars, VI. xiii. Warwick … The fatall kindle-fire of those hot daies. Ibid. (1613–8), Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626), 42. The Bishop … became the onely kindle-fire to set them all into more furious combustion.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., xxv. § 4. Such a kindlefire sin is that the flames it kindles fly … from one nation to another.
