fire basket

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fire basket

noun fire baskets

A portable grate for lighting a fire outdoors, or historically for heating bedrooms etc.
A metal cage or basket filled with burning material, used to attract fish when night fishing. For quotations using this term, see Citations:fire basket.
Similar: cresset

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noun metal cage or basket to hold fire for night fishing

Русский	коза́ kozá, ко́бра kóbra

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"fire basket." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fire%20basket. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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fire basket. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fire%20basket

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"fire basket." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fire%20basket.

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@misc{fire_basket_2026,
  title = {fire basket},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fire%20basket},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}