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Definition of Firings
1. firing [n] - See also: firing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firings
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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