(n.) One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can't say exactly what these are or when (they might be rolled out), but we are in a kind of race [with the Palestinian rocket firers] and we always need to update (the system) to increase the probability of a kill."
(2) Among the public posts she held was a governorship of London's Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and chairman of the Electricity Consumers' Committee for the South East: in recent years her long interest in consumer rights - she was a great firer-off of letters - and her commitment to poorer families were meshing.
(3) At the firer's locations, peak pressures ranged from 178 to 189 dB and B-durations ranged from 28 to 376 msec.
(4) He had reinstated an episode which more prudish historians preferred to omit, describing the final desperate resistance of some French soldiers: "They could hear in the crepuscular gloom that cannons were being loaded, wicks were being lit and gleamed like the eyes of tigers in the night, making a circle around their heads, all the shot-firers of the English batteries approached the cannons, and then, deeply moved, holding the moment of reckoning hanging over these men, an English general - Colville according to some, Maitland according to others - cried out to them: 'Brave Frenchmen, give yourselves up!'
Frier
Definition:
(n.) One who fries.
Example Sentences:
(1) A four and a half year old boy was hospitalised with acute respiratory failure due to the inhalation during two hours of the smoke from an overheated frier.
(2) However, the standard Alinsky and Friere techniques have limitations in organizing efforts directed toward nursing home reform.
(3) While the techniques of Saul Alinsky and to a lesser extent Paulo Friere have provided the theoretical backbone for most community organizing efforts, these campaigns frequently are characterized by a rather eclectic synthesis of different methodologies.