ablast
Collocations
3ADJ.
call-in, giddy, little
VERB + ABLAST
guns
PREP.
with
Definitions
adj
Blasting, making a loud noise.
[…] their real metier is the giddy tenth-rate circus, ablast with drums and the roaring of wild beasts, the snuffling of freaks, and the shrieking mirth of the vulgar.
Still steaming toward the battleship, / Fogarty Feegan keeps his little guns ablast.
Burning intensely; (of a furnace) subject to a continuous blast of hot air. (of fire)
So the next golden or profitable rule of the system soon suggested itself, viz. while you kept literary fire all ablast and crackling, to have a number of irons heating in it.
[…] John Williamson […] had spent his time and money on a process for transmuting base metals into gold. […] For months his furnace had been kept ablast, and at last the hour of the supreme test had drawn near.
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3[…] their real metier is the giddy tenth-rate circus, ablast with drums and the roaring of wild beasts, the snuffling of freaks, and the shrieking mirth of the vulgar.
WiktionaryStill steaming toward the battleship, / Fogarty Feegan keeps his little guns ablast.
WiktionaryThe radio was ablast with call-in voices, they’re griping, they’re spraying spit […]
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