slow fire

noun

1. a rate of firing small arms that allows time to aim before each shot.

Other Words From

• slow-fire adjective

Example Sentences

However, Islanders would also commonly capture turtles and roast them whole while still living over a slow fire, as they had particular taboos about spilling turtle blood.

From Nautilus

Servetus was roasted for two hours in the flames of a slow fire made of green wood.

From Project Gutenberg

The whole mass is then transferred to a retort and distilled over a slow fire.

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Upon forty pounds of roses, with the calixes, sixty pounds of water are poured, and the whole is distilled over a slow fire.

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A superficial apathy was creeping over her, below which burnt a slow fire of pain.

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Warm these over a slow fire, but do not let them boil; when done, pour into a fancy mould lined with light puff paste.

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