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bonfiring

bonfiring noun: the act of firing pottery using a bonfire. Also the gerund of bonfire.

Noun

bonfiring (plural bonfirings)

  1. The act of firing pottery using a bonfire.
    • Most women's traditions involve open firing such as bonfiring, pitfiring, or a fire surrounded by a low wall. More unusually, in Cyprus, Colombia and the Canaries individual potters have their own kilns.2000, Moira Vincentelli, “Gender, Technology and Technique”, in Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 42
    • Bonfiring has a very direct contact between the pottery and the flame. Firing time is usually quite short and the pots are carefully supervised through the process. Bonfiring, in general, does not create the same amount of wasters as kiln firing […]2004, Moira Vincentelli, Women Potters: Transforming Traditions, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 212

Also used as

bonfiring is also the gerund of bonfire.

bonfiring is also the present participle and gerund of bonfire.

Forms of bonfiring

pluralbonfirings

Origin of bonfiring

From bonfire + -ing.

Questions about bonfiring

What does bonfiring mean?
Bonfiring means the act of firing pottery using a bonfire.
What part of speech is bonfiring?
Bonfiring is a noun.
What is the plural of bonfiring?
The plural of bonfiring is bonfirings.

Words near bonfiring in the dictionary

  1. bonfire tree
  2. bonfired
  3. bonfirelike
  4. bonfires
  5. bonfires of the vanities
  6. bonfiring
  7. bonfirings
  8. bong
  9. bong hit
  10. bong hits
  11. Bonga

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