Firing

(n.) The act of disharging firearms.

(n.) The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.

(n.) The application of fire, or of a cautery.

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

(n.) Fuel; firewood or coal.

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• When you hear firing, he said, come with the horses. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The Dutch fleet, frozen in the Texel, surrendered to a handful of cavalry without firing its guns. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In a moment they saw him, and then me; but scarcely had they discovered me than I commenced firing, lying flat upon my belly in the moss. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The others all were firing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• We heard the firing and confusion very plainly here; we none of us slept. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The enemy ceased firing as soon as we withdrew. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It suggested that at the time of the firing, the window as well as the door of the room had been open. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Just then they all heard firing start down the road where Pablo was holding the post he had taken. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Hay and straw were stored in that portion of the place, fagots for firing, and a heap of apples in sand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Then there was firing! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• We heard firing ahead of us. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• But suppose it was you, way back here in your own country and they held you up with firing on the main road. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Just then the firing doubled in intensity and in it was the heavy bumping of the hand grenades. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• If you hear firing bring them up to the woods behind the gap. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• After loading the pawls are tripped, and the greater gravity of the counterweight raises the gun to firing position again. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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