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marfire en · NOUN

Etymology

Dialectally, the form mer-fire is also recorded; the first element is probably from (or in any case cognate to) Old Norse marr (“sea”) or Old English mere; the second element is fire.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Synonym of seafire.
    • I see it blue-green and mostly a seascape, and lit with marfire from within. 1988, Jennifer Stone, Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television:
    • Do you think that the marfire does as much harm when it is […]? The drift net cannot make anything near the amount of marfire that the trawl net makes. 1968, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Fisheries, page 298:

Synonyms

seafire