dead firing

noun

1. firing of a furnace or boiler at less than normal operating temperature in order to maintain conditions desirable during a period of idleness.

Example Sentences

Citing a passage from “The Shining Brow,” the 1960 book by Wright’s widow, Olgivanna, in which her husband damns the Seagram’s Building with faint praise, Howard writes: “With Mrs. Wright’s help, the Master returned from the dead, firing a pointed bon mot that Philip Johnson knew perfectly well was aimed in his direction.”

From Washington Post

Garrett, who was the passenger in the patrol car, is said to have got out and shot Alderman dead, firing “several rounds”.

From The Guardian

Three bullets hit him at once, and he dropped dead, firing three shots before he reached the ground.

From Project Gutenberg

In this awful tempest of iron the assailants struggled forward foot by foot across their dead, firing into the embrasures, reloading, firing again, and at last falling in their turn, a little in advance of those who had fallen before.

From Project Gutenberg