BACK-FIRE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

2.
v.

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. -- Back"-fir`ing, n.

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