| 单词 | firing-place |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfiring-place firing-place n. †(a) a fireplace (obsolete); (b) a place from which weapons are fired. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > a place for a fire firepita1500 fireplace1611 firing-place1662 chulha1813 society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun] > gun-site cannonery1598 emplacement1811 firing-place1879 fire position1889 machine-gun post1915 gun-site1943 1662 in Statutes at Large, Ireland (1765) II. 505 The said constables..shall take Information by their own view of the Number of such Hearths, Firing Places and Stoves. 1691 A. Swall tr. S. Le P. de Vauban New Method Fortification v. xviiii. 103 If these saliant Angles were not too acute, your Firing-place would be very great. 1742 N. Dubois tr. A. Palladio Disc. Fires Ancients in G. Leoni Archit. A. Palladio II. 99 I shall argue from this, that the Ancients were acquainted with these sorts of Hearths and Firing-places, or they were not. 1879 R. Browning Martin Relph 78 The turf marked out for the party's firing-place. 2006 Irish Times 15 Mar. 17/7 British soldiers..saw a red car departing from the firing-place of a mortar-bomb attack on a military base. < as lemmas |
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