fire flawn.1
/ˈfʌɪə ˌflɔː/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)r ˌflɔ/, /ˈfaɪ(ə)r ˌflɑ/ Now rare.
A flaw produced by high temperature; a defect that arises during a high-temperature process in the manufacture of something (as the firing of ceramics or the casting of metal objects).
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1672 W. Salmon Polygraphice ii. 91 Take a plate of Brass or Copper of what bigness you please, and of a reasonable thickness, taking heed that it be free from fire flaws.
1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India vi.127 Try every Piece with a small Stick to discover the Cracks; and take nothing that has the least Fire-flaw or Discolour.
1819 Jrnl. of Times 6 Mar. 412/1 Have you not left your irons to be a little repaired..and found them perfectly unsound and shattered in pieces by fire flaws?
1908 ABC Collecting Old Eng. China 134 The very high temperature necessary to fire this hard paste in the kiln made sundry defects—twists, bends, fire-flaws—in the early pieces especially.
1980 A. Ray in A. Jarrell & N. R. Ball Sci., Technol., & Canad. Hist. 52 They claimed that these imperfections were ‘fire flaws’ and that arms and metal tools could not be made without them.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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