[
UK
/fˈaɪəɡɑːd/
]
NOUN
- a metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks)
- a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire
How To Use fireguard In A Sentence
- Mobile Mums group is aimed at mums and mobile babies in need of fireguards, etc. and more active toys.
- Alongside, my jeans and shorts - my only clothes to survive the night's escapades - were hanging on a fireguard and steaming slightly in the heat.
- Other shots revealed the futile efforts of firefighters as they built fireguards or dropped plane-loads of water and fire retardant on a natural force out of control.
- It was hard in wet weather to get them dry, too, but somehow or other they did, on the fireguard, over the airer, or even in the oven!
- After draping her clothes over the fireguard, she tip-toed upstairs to her room in the loft and crawled into bed.
- Make sure that you use an appropriate fireguard for all fires.
- In all, the fireguard stretches seven kilometres, and is approximately 400 meters wide.
- In winter he fell asleep watching the shadows from the fireguard. THE GOLDEN LION
- He put the tongs back on the stand, picked up the fireguard and set it in front of the fireplace. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
- In response to my post on idiomatic similes for superfluity and uselessness in German and English, several people emailed to draw my attention to common expressions such as ‘as useless as a chocolate teapot’ or ‘as a chocolate fireguard’.
