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Fusee

noun
1.
A spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring.  Synonym: fusee drive.
2.
A colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains.  Synonym: fuzee.
3.
A friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind.  Synonym: fuzee.
4.
Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant.  Synonyms: fuse, fuze, fuzee, primer, priming.





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... Claude Henri Fusee de Voisenon, Abbe of Jard, and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Prince-Bishop of Spire, was born at Voisenon on the 8th of June, 1708. Biographers have, perhaps, laid too much stress on the debility of constitution which he brought with him into the world, inherited, they say, ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various


Words linked to "Fusee" :   lucifer, light, lighter, match, friction match, clock, igniter, drive, flare, time-fuse, detonating fuse, ignitor, safety fuse


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