Noun
A piece of burning wood.
One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed. Christopher Columbus
In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore. Alan Moore
May you be the firebrand of the furnace of the earth! Go, Azazel, into the untrodden parts of the earth. For your heritage is over those who are with you. Abraham
Hyena says that men are wise because they know how to hold a firebrand. Kikuyu Proverb
Hyena says that men are wise because they know how to hold a firebrand. Bajan Proverb
she was the instigator of their quarrel Source: Internet