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Firing iron

Firing \Fir"ing\, n.

  1. The act of discharging firearms.

  2. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.
    --Knight.

  3. The application of fire, or of a cautery.
    --Dunglison.

  4. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.

  5. Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.]
    --Mortimer.

    Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing.

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firing iron

n. An instrument used in cauterize.

Usage examples of "firing iron".

The duller sound of smoothbores followed as the brass and cast-iron cannon salvaged from storage all over Old Residence cut loose, firing iron roundshot.