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tollview | 10:29 Tue 24th Nov 2009 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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This is done to prevent a fire from going out
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In the days of coal fires, we always used to talk about damping down, and sprinkled water over the fire. It slowed the burning overnight. I have managed to find one reference :
damp down
1 to make (a fire) burn more slowly.
11:19 Tue 24th Nov 2009
don't dowse?
Damping down
Surely damping down is putting the fire out?
In the days of coal fires, we always used to talk about damping down, and sprinkled water over the fire. It slowed the burning overnight. I have managed to find one reference :
damp down
1 to make (a fire) burn more slowly.
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