DCHP-1 Online

signal fire

• a column of smoke from a dampened fire, intended as a signal or taken as a sign of the presence of other men.

  See also: smoke (def. 2)  

  • 1820  (1963)  Made a signal smoke which was answered at Seal Lake.
  • 1949  When they did find them [buffalo], they set signal fires to apprise the camp the way to come.