outfire
English
Etymology
out- + fire
Noun
outfire (plural outfires)
- (Sussex) A visit by one bonfire society to join in with the celebrations of another.
- Are you going to any outfires this year? Yes, Barcombe and Glynde I think.
Verb
outfire (third-person singular simple present outfires, present participle outfiring, simple past and past participle outfired)
- (transitive) To fire farther or better than.
- 1943, Popular Mechanics (volume 79, number 4, April 1943)
- Outfiring the newest Nazi weapon four to one, an automatic, pneumatic gun developed by a Los Angeles inventor pours out 12,000 rounds a minute...
- 1995, Albert Wendt, Nuanua: Pacific writing in English since 1980
- It had outfired the weapons of their forefathers.
- 1943, Popular Mechanics (volume 79, number 4, April 1943)
Anagrams
- fire out