The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
After the pots have been glazed, they go back into the kiln for a second firing.
The fuel for a fire.
No more dams I’ll make for fish; Nor fetch in firing At requiring […]
The act of adding fuel to a fire.
One driver told him that a fireman who did not know the route might easily go "over the side" between Corby and Harringworth, unless warned beforehand of the reverse curves; he himself, in his firing days, used to try so to plan his firing that it was unnecessary to add any more coal while passing over this stretch at speed.
present participle and gerund of fire
By surface analysis, fire + -ing.
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