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UK
/fjˈuːsiː/
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NOUN
- a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring
- any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
- a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains
- a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind
How To Use fusee In A Sentence
- We next observe a flexible chain (artificially wrought for the sake of flexure) communicating the action of the spring from the box to the fusee.
- Other problems have occurred such as fusees sticking in ignitor tubes and fusees that fail to ignite.
- It consists of a small wooden cylinder, about three quarters of an inch in diameter, and 3 in. long; at one end of the cylinder is a cavity which holds the combustible, which is confined only by pasteboard or membrane, so that, when ignited, it will blow straight into the heart of the principal charge; the two wires of the electric circuit, entering at the other end of the cylinder, terminate upon the little wooden disc which forms the bottom of this cavity, so that the end of one wire is about a quarter of an inch from the other; the electric circuit is completed by drawing a dash with a blacklead-pencil across the tiny space of the wooden surface connecting the two ends of wire; and the fusee is then charged. Experiments with the American Torpedo-Shells at Chatham
- The fusees had little or no effect in igniting the manzanita.
- Highway flares (fusees) are not registered for use as a pesticide in the state of Arizona.
- It is a bit of a slap in the face when she refuseed to see me.
- Well, a fusee was a short cone having a spiral groove round it, with a cord or chain wound to the groove and fastened at the big end of the cone. Christopher and the Clockmakers
- The explosion was caused by a kind of fusee held in the hand which the people could not see, and taking it for a miracle they paid all that was demanded. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
- Had the agent, a senior man of 30 years service, had a lit hand lamp handy, or had he lit a fusee to wave a ‘washout’ signal instead of yelling at the passing engines it would likely have turned out differently.
- Words are celebrated in vocabularic feats -- Page 117 alone delights a word-lover with "syzygy," "invigilator" and "fusee. Tom McCarthy's "C," reviewed by Samantha Hunt