Definitions for balefires

balefires bale·fire

Spelling: [beyl-fahyuh r]
IPA: /ˈbeɪlˌfaɪər/

Balefires is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 577 anagrams from letters in balefires (abeefilrs).

Definitions for balefires

noun

  1. a large fire in the open air; bonfire.
  2. a signal fire; beacon.
  3. the fire of a funeral pile.

Origin of balefires

1250-1300; Middle English bal(e)fir, equivalent to bale (Old Norse bāl funeral pyre) + fire fire; replacing Old English bǣlfȳr

Examples for balefires

This word was the last which the wise old man harbored in heart ere hot death-waves of balefire he chose.

balefire devoured, greediest spirit, those spared not by war out of either folk: their flower was gone.

A single window in the wing gleamed like a balefire in the rays of the setting sun.

Word Value for balefires
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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