Definition of Firing chamber

1. Noun. Chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge.

Exact synonyms: Gun Chamber
Generic synonyms: Chamber
Group relationships: Gun

Lexicographical Neighbors of Firing Chamber

firewoman
firewomen
firewood
firewoods
firework
fireworklike
fireworks
fireworks night
fireworky
fireworm
fireworms
firey
fireys
firing
firing away
firing chamber (current term)
firing line
firing mechanism
firing off
firing party
firing pin
firing pins
firing range
firing ranges
firing squad
firing squads
firing up
firings
firked

Literary usage of Firing chamber

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"It consists of a single firing- chamber ¡n which the unfired bricks arc placed, and in the walls of which are contrived a number of fire-mouths where wood ..."

2. Grand Feu Ceramics: A Practical Treatise on the Making of Fine Porcelain and by Taxile Doat, Charles Fergus Binns (1905)
"At the bottom of the firing chamber are symmetrically placed the three fire mouths A,A',A" (Fig. 34). In R (Fig.31 and 35) are the openings through which ..."

3. A LM Ia Ceramic Kiln in South-Central Crete: Function and Pottery Production by Joseph W. Shaw (2001)
"... rope moldings on pithoi 84"6; side- spouted cups from 71% Kato Syme: chalices from 85 Kato Zakros: dimensions of kiln firing chamber 106107; kiln at 20, ..."

4. Silica and the Silicates by James Aloysius Audley (1921)
"Each kiln consists of a single firing chamber in which the dried bricks are arranged, and around the wall are placed a number of fire-mouths, in which fuel ..."

5. The Horseless Age (1896)
"... firing-chamber having an inlet- port and an exhaust-port, a supplementary inlet-chamber adapted to communicate with the firing-chamber through said ..."

6. A Textbook on Gas, Oil, and Air Engines: Or, Internal Combustion Motors by Bryan Donkin (1894)
"This little vent-hole is obliquely in line with the firing chamber, to which it is ... The slide valve and firing chamber are kept comparatively cool, ..."

7. A Text-book on the Gas, Oil, and Air Engines by Bryan Donkin (1896)
"This little vent-hole is obliquely in line with the firing chamber, to which it is ... The slide valve and firing chamber are kept comparatively cool, ..."

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