GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   backfire, back fire.
   1. A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.
   
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   2.  (a) A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also called a knock or ping. (b) an explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.
   
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   Ping (?), n. [Probably of imitative origin.] The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
   
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   Ping, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pinged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pinging.] To make the sound called ping.
   
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