"firemaking" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fire + making.",
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          "ref": "1915 July, William Heyliger, “Don Strong of the Wolf Patrol”, in Walter P. McGuire, editor, Boys’ Life: The Boy Scouts’ Magazine, volume V, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Boy Scouts of America, chapter V (Donald Receives a Gift), page 30, column 2",
          "text": "To his pleasure his father proved to be well versed in the art of firemaking and of cooking in the open.",
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          "ref": "2019, Ben Nuttall-Smith, Blood, Feathers & Holy Men, Surrey, B.C.: Libros Libertad Publishing Ltd., page 117",
          "text": "She laboriously drilled holes through each piece of bone with a hand driller bow and pointed wood spike such as that used for firemaking, and a small piece of flint attached to a wooden shaft with a string of animal hide.",
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          "ref": "2016, Lucy Coats, Chosen, London: Orchard Books, Hachette Children’s Group, page 19",
          "text": "She was right about the smell, so I walked a little distance away from the bustle and hurry of unsaddling and firemaking till I came to a small irrigation channel.",
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        "The act or process of making a fire."
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        {
          "word": "firelighting"
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      "translations": [
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "act or process of making a fire",
          "word": "tulenteko"
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  "word": "firemaking"
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