“Having stayed, and in an hour’s time seen the fire rage every way, and nobody, to my sight,
endeavoring to quench it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the fire, and having seen
it get as far as the steel yard, and the wind mighty high and driving it into the city…”
Which of these is nearest in meaning to the word quench, as it is used in the passage above?
stoke
extinguish
locate
reroute