Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A firefighter who drops by parachute into a forest fire.
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- noun a
firefighter whoparachutes into a remote area to combatwildfires .
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Examples
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Forest Service's elite "smokejumper" firefighters, he was in charge of putting out the blazes across the sprawling region.
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Murry Taylor isn't just my role model because he wrote the bestselling Jumping Fire published by Harcourt in 2000, a memoir of his experiences as a smokejumper.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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Clara's love interest, a retired smokejumper named Paul, doesn't hesitate to recount old fire stories and tells Clara that smokejumpers live life the way it's meant to be lived -- as an adventure.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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Taylor has proven himself as an athlete and smokejumper, as well as a memoirist.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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But most of the book's characters -- while still close to and often in communion with nature -- live more settled lives than that of a smokejumper.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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He's also my hero because when he retired he was the oldest smokejumper ever in U.S. history.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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Clara's love interest, a retired smokejumper named Paul, doesn't hesitate to recount old fire stories and tells Clara that smokejumpers live life the way it's meant to be lived -- as an adventure.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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I was never a smokejumper, but rather worked on an elite, Type-1 Hotshot crew.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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I was never a smokejumper, but rather worked on an elite, Type-1 Hotshot crew.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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But most of the book's characters -- while still close to and often in communion with nature -- live more settled lives than that of a smokejumper.
Mary Pauline Lowry: Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review Mary Pauline Lowry 2012
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