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firemaking en · NOUN

From fire + making.

(uncountable) The act or process of making a fire; especially, the skill in getting a fire going, even despite adverse conditions, such as wet weather, darkness, and so on.
- To his pleasure his father proved to be well versed in the art of firemaking and of cooking in the open. 1915 July, William Heyliger, “Don Strong of the Wolf Patrol”, in Walter P. McGuire, editor, Boys’ Life: The Boy Scouts’ Magazine, volume V, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Boy Scouts of America, chapter V (Donald Receives a Gift), page 30, column 2:
- She laboriously drilled holes through each piece of bone with a hand driller bow and pointed wood spike such as that used for firemaking, and a small piece of flint attached to a wooden shaft with a string of animal hide. 2019, Ben Nuttall-Smith, Blood, Feathers & Holy Men, Surrey, B.C.: Libros Libertad Publishing Ltd., →ISBN, page 117:
- She was right about the smell, so I walked a little distance away from the bustle and hurry of unsaddling and firemaking till I came to a small irrigation channel. 2016, Lucy Coats, Chosen, London: Orchard Books, Hachette Children’s Group, →ISBN, page 19:

pon soukisiniei (act or process of making a fire) · fi tulenteko (act or process of making a fire)