ablast

Adjective

ablast (not comparable)

1. Blasting, making a loud noise.
   • […] 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.1907, T. W. H. Crosland, The Abounding American, London: A. F. Thompson, page 110
   • Still steaming toward the battleship, / Fogarty Feegan keeps his little guns ablast.1942, Gene Fowler, “The Jervis Bay Goes Down”, in Charles G. D. Roberts, editor, Flying Colours, Toronto: The Ryerson Press, page 109

   Synonyms:

   ablare

2. Burning intensely; (of a furnace) subject to a continuous blast of hot air. (of fire)
   • 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.1882, Percy Fitzgerald, chapter 2, in Recreations of a Literary Man, volume 1, London: Chatto and Windus, pages 30–31
   • […] 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.1908, Francis Downman, “Romney”, in Great English Painters, Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, page 132

   Synonyms:

   ablaze