firing
/ˈfaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.27 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "After the pots have been glazed, they go back into the kiln for a second firing."
- "No more dams I’ll make for fish; Nor fetch in firing At requiring […]"
- "Downstairs there was a kitchen common to all lodgers, with free firing and a supply of cooking-pots, tea-basins, and toasting-forks."
- "One driver told him that a fireman who did not know the route might easily go "over the side" between Corby and Harringworth, unless warned beforehand of the reverse curves; he himself, in his firing days, used to try so to plan his firing that it was unnecessary to add any more coal while passing over this stretch at speed."
- "The doors are at the right level for firing, which normally is down one side of the firebox at a time, unlike our own practice, which is to fire each side of the firebox with alternate shovelfuls."
- "[…] they fir’d several Times, making other Signals for the Boat. At last, when all their Signals and Firings prov’d fruitless, and they found the Boat did not stir, we saw them by the Help of my Glasses, hoist another Boat out, and row towards the Shore […]"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈfaɪ.əɹ.ɪŋ/