Firing

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Fuel; firewood or coal.

II. Firing ·noun The act of disharging firearms.

III. Firing ·noun The application of fire, or of a cautery.

IV. Firing ·noun The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.

V. Firing ·noun The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.