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Synonyms:
- reason, solid ground, currying, developing, dressing, fusee drive, primer coat, setting, arranging, fusee, safety fuse, formulating, soil, fabricating, footing, furnishing, outfitting, priming coat, preparing, primer, warming up, underseal, underfur, fuzee, mobilizing, earth, marshalling, fitting, electrical fuse, ground, flat coat, readying, land, fuze, fuse, basis, constructing, composing, devising, fashioning, dry land, background, undercoat, drafting, making, equipping, fostering, terra firma
Examples:
- - The little man pulled out a brace of pistols, and very quietly began priming them out of a small powder- flask. - "The Disowned, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- - The hammer fell, but there followed neither flash nor sound; the priming was useless with sea water. - "Treasure Island", Robert Louis Stevenson
- - But even when the amount of water introduced and the quantity passed off from the boiler are accurately ascertained, there yet remains a doubt as to how much has been actually evaporated, and how much may have passed off in priming, unless the trial has been conducted with the boiler open to the atmosphere, which appears to be the only condition under which accuracy can be insured, unless a suitable apparatus can be provided for accurately measuring the weight and temperature of all the steam and water given off, when the boiler is working above atmospheric pressure. - "Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II", Joshua Rose
