Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument used in farriery for cauterizing; a cautery.
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Examples
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Decided in the negative, we take an ordinary flat firing-iron, and with it cut away
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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The grooves are the easiest made by a cautious use of the firing-iron.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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With the special firing-iron (Fig. 86) an indentation, sufficiently large to admit the points of the clamp (Fig. 87), is made on each side of the crack.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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'There was little if any hæmorrhage until release of the tourniquet, when the whole broad surface became deluged with blood, three or four small arteries spurting and veins flowing in all directions, so much so that I was glad to reafix the clasp, and with the firing-iron seal up the vessels, searing gently all over the surface.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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Fig. 46, _a_ and _b_, and they will find their work much easier if they will make the first steps in the incisions with an ordinary flat firing-iron.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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When the hæmorrhage has sufficiently ceased, an ordinary flat firing-iron should be passed over the whole of the cut surface, and an effectual eschar formed.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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The firing-iron will sometimes answer the purpose very well.
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a more serious matter: in that case the firing-iron must be applied, and after the most skilful treatment the results are often very unsatisfactory.
Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie
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In Figs. 94, 95, and 96 the thick black lines illustrate the positions of the various grooves made with the firing-iron for the purpose of immobilizing a quarter sand-crack.]
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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