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Definition of Misfired
1. misfire [v] - See also: misfire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misfired
Literary usage of Misfired
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Special bulletin by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"Killed by explosion due to drilling into misfired load of dynamite. ...
While striking rock with a sledge hammer, he struck a misfired charge of dynamite. ..."
2. Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors by Thomas Aitken (1900)
"Another method of attaining the same object is to drill another bore-hole a few
feet distant from the misfired one, and to a depth which will nearly reach ..."
3. Ceramicus Redivivus: The Early Iron Age Potters' Field in the Area of the by John K. Papadopoulos (2003)
"Clay body and reserved surfaces mostly misfired gray/brown; close to reddish
brown 2.SYR 5/4 where less badly misfired. Fabric dense, with few visible ..."
4. The Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora by John K. Papadopoulos, Piet De Jong (2007)
"170b) is meant to be black-gloss, but it was misfired in the kiln to a reddish-brown
color. Piet de Jong has successfully captured the mottled and irregular ..."
5. The Greek Tile Works at Corinth: The Site and the Finds by Gloria S. Merker (2006)
"Glaze partly misfired red, peeled. Small open vessel with a ring foot, ...
Glaze mostly misfired red. Undersurface is slightly convex and faintly nippled. ..."
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