ablast

Definitions

1. Blasting, making a loud noise.
   not-comparable
2. Burning intensely; (of a furnace) subject to a continuous blast of hot air. (of fire)
   not-comparable

Examples

“[…] their real metier is the giddy tenth-rate circus, ablast with drums and the roaring of wild beasts, the snuffling of freaks, and the shrieking mirth of the vulgar.”

“Still steaming toward the battleship, / Fogarty Feegan keeps his little guns ablast.”

“The radio was ablast with call-in voices, they’re griping, they’re spraying spit⟳ […]”

“So the next golden or profitable rule⟳ of the system soon suggested itself, viz. while you kept literary fire all ablast and crackling, to have⟳ a number⟳ of irons heating in it.”

“[…] John Williamson […] had spent his time and money on a process⟳ for transmuting base⟳ metals into gold. […] For months his furnace had been kept ablast, and at last⟳ the hour of the supreme test⟳ had drawn near.”

“[He] constantly played with matches which, he said, he “stole” from his mother, who smoked all day long. The heat they produced cracked the ashtray one day where he set⟳ ablast his mother’s pyre symbolically.”

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