firings

as inarson
as inpottery
as involley
as ingunfire
as inshooting
as indischarge
as inexhilaration
as inexplosion
as infling

Synonyms for firings

noun intentional burning

Word Origin & History

c.1200, furen, figurative, "arouse, excite;" literal sense of "set fire to" is from late 14c., from fire (n.). The Old English verb fyrian "to supply with fire" apparently did not survive into Middle English.

The sense of "sack, dismiss" is first recorded 1885 in American English (earlier "throw (someone) out" of some place, 1871), probably from a play on the two meanings of discharge: "to dismiss from a position," and "to fire a gun," fire in the second sense being from "set fire to gunpowder," attested from 1520s. Of bricks, pottery, etc., from 1660s. Related: Fired; firing. Fired up "angry" is from 1824. Firing squad is attested from 1904.

Example Sentences for firings

In close order the company executes the firings, as prescribed in pars.

Loadings, firings, manual of arms, and movements by color guard.

Men in the line of file closers do not execute loadings and firings.

There they went through the manœuvres and firings, with as much celerity and precision as any regular troops.

And has (directly on those new "firings through port-holes" at Leipzig) bidden Fredersdorf take measures accordingly.

File closers do not execute loadings or firings; execution of manual of arms and other movements.

Issuing of ammunition and loading of pieces before deployment; firings in close order.

Men in the line of file closers do not execute the loadings or firings.

Usually the firings in close order consist of saluting volleys only.

The battalion as a unit executes the loadings and firings only in firing saluting volleys.