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ˈfire-ˌworker
[f. fire n. + worker, after firework.]
†1. One who has to do with fireworks or explosives in war; spec. an artillery officer, under the fire-master. Obs.
1626Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) 527 They tooke some of these Fire-workers, & one of which being examined, confessed after M. Prings Relation thus. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2124/2 They will be 8000 fighting Men, besides..Gunners and Fire-workers. 1703Ibid. No. 3913/2 A Lieutenant, with 5 Fireworkers, killed. 1800Dundas in Owen Wellesley's Desp. 564 Each company to have an additional Lieut.-Fireworker.
2. One who makes fireworks; a pyrotechnist.
1772in J. T. Smith Bk. Rainy Day (1861) 52 Torre the fireworker divided the receipts at the door with the proprietor. 1835A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara (ed. 2) I. 176 All the fire-workers of Lahore seemed to be exerting their talents in pyrotechny.
So † fire-working vbl. n., the management of fireworks or explosives (obs.); fire-working ppl. a., working with fire.
1758Whitworth Acc. Russia 60 He..understands navagation, shipbuilding, fortification, and fire-working. 1850W. Maginn Homeric Ball. 169 A vessel wrought By the fire-working god. |