Definition of Firings

1. Noun. (plural of firing) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Firings

1. firing [n] - See also: firing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Firings

fireys
firing
firing away
firing chamber
firing line
firing mechanism
firing off
firing party
firing pin
firing pins
firing range
firing ranges
firing squad
firing squads
firing up
firings (current term)
firked
firkin
firking
firkins
firks
firless
firlike
firlot
firlots
firm
firm omelet
firm power
firm up

Literary usage of Firings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... only some small firings, and sometimes they made Truces, Colonel Clifford and the other Irish Officers drinking Healths over to our Men, ..."

2. Infantry Tactics, Double and Single Rank, Adapted to American Topography and by Emory Upton (1875)
"Oblique firings. 107. The oblique firings are executed to the right and left by the same commands as the direct fire, except that the command aim is ..."

3. Voyages to the East-Indies by Johan Splinter Stavorinus (1798)
"... little firings " of ... of thin white " cane, upon which fome figures are burnt, and to which a " few firings of ..."

4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
"Faith! were he mine (As mine's the glove he binds to for his firings) I'd fly him with a make-hawk. He's in yarak Plumed to the very point — so manned so ..."

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