fire tower

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   a watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires

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Questions about fire tower

What does fire tower mean?

fire tower means "a watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires".

Is fire tower a common word?

fire tower is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.