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 Fire-new.Fire Up (To). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Fire-ship.
 
A ship filled with combustibles to be sent against adverse vessels in order to set them on fire.   1
 


 Fire-new.Fire Up (To). 

 
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