watch fire

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   a fire lighted at night as a signal

   Broadervisual signal

Questions about watch fire

What does watch fire mean?

watch fire means "a fire lighted at night as a signal".

Is watch fire a common word?

watch fire 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.