fire watcher

1. 1.

   (during World War II in Britain) someone whose duty was to watch for fires caused by bombs dropped from the air

   Broaderwatchman

   United Kingdom

Questions about fire watcher

What does fire watcher mean?

fire watcher means "(during World War II in Britain) someone whose duty was to watch for fires caused by bombs dropped from the air".

Is fire watcher a common word?

fire watcher 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.