Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In ceramics, exposed to too great a heat in firing.

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Examples

  • This includes fragments of huge vats filled with residue from the production of a grain-based food, probably some sort of porridge, and the firebars used to support the vats, as well as pottery-making tools and over-fired "wasters."

    Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2008 - Field Note 2 2002

  • For lime produced by less sophisticated methods, which may contain only 55% quick lime (the rest being made up of unfired or over-fired components), the proportion must be increased.

    Chapter 7 1994

  • Before collection or despatch, under - and over-fired bricks must be discarded and the remainder, if of variable quality, should be sorted out into good quality, ‘seconds’ and soft-fired bricks.

    Chapter 10 1984

  • "When the lassie is a bit over-fired and excited, she doesn't know what she is saying."

    The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma 1884

  • What we would be looking at would be things like doing some more over-fired area that some of our power plants, potentially some reinjections.

    unknown title 2011

  • "We felt early on that most of the investment banks and smaller boutique firms had over-fired in the beginning of the recession and would realize within months that they had nobody to do the work," said Trudy Steinfeld, executive director of the NYU Wasserman career center.

    Crain's New York Business - Breaking News Feeds 2010

  • "We felt early on that most of the investment banks and smaller boutique firms had over-fired in the beginning of the recession and would realize within months that they had nobody to do the work," said Trudy Steinfeld, executive director of the NYU Wasserman career center.

    Crain's New York Business - Breaking News Feeds 2010

  • "We felt early on that most of the investment banks and smaller boutique firms had over-fired in the beginning of the recession and would realize within months that they had nobody to do the work," said Trudy Steinfeld, executive director of the NYU Wasserman career center.

    Crain's New York Business - Breaking News Feeds 2010

  • De-rating is an option for an over-fired boiler, usually the result of successive burner replacements, each with a larger firing rate due to multiple margins of safety added by inexperienced contractors.

    CSE - Top Articles 2010

  • "We felt early on that most of the investment banks and smaller boutique firms had over-fired in the beginning of the recession and would realize within months that they had nobody to do the work," said Trudy Steinfeld, executive director of the NYU Wasserman career center.

    Crain's New York Business - Breaking News Feeds 2010

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