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American in charge of the match
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fusee
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fusee \Fu*see"\, n. [F. fus['e]e a spindleful, fusee, LL. fusata, fr. fusare to use a spindle, L. fusus spindle.] The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel which ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Used in antique spring -powered mechanical watches and clocks , a fusee is a cone -shaped pulley with a helical groove around it, wound with a cord or chain which is attached to the mainspring barrel . Fusees were used from the 15th century to the early ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring [syn: fusee drive ] a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains [syn: fuzee ] a friction match with a large head that will stay ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fuzee , type of light musket, 1660s, from pronunciation of French fusil (see fusilier ). As the name of a type of match used in lighting cigars and pipes by 1832, from fusee as a variant of fuse (n.).
Usage examples of fusee.
The bronze man planted the fusee atop a boulder, illuminating the sea for hundreds of feet in all directions.
He did not follow them himself until he had picked up and tossed a fusee into the fire.
The fusee flared and spat and spurted, and immediately it seemed to Fevrier—so short an interval of time was there—that the country-side was alive with the hum of a stirring camp, and the rattle of harness-chains, as horses were yoked to guns.
All this while, I knew not what was the matter, but rousing immediately from sleep with the noise, I caused the boat to be thrust in, and resolved with three fusees we had on board to land and assist our men.
Our men were but nine in all, and only five of them had fusees with them.
Our brave commander, without asking anybody to follow him, gallops up close to them, and with his fusee knocks one of them off his horse, killed the second with his pistol, and the third ran away.
From the engine the fusee looked like a pink moon perched between the rails.
Some few fusees [rifles] I observe among them, notwithstanding they live by the bow and arrow.
Immediately after, 80 or 90 Indian men-all armed with fusees and bows and arrows-came out of a wood on the opposite bank, about a quarter of a mile below us.
If they aren't there, if they haven't seen the fusees and the train isn't stopping, you must light another flare and throw it through the window into the cab.
Though as a styptic, it has now gone out of use, as tinder it is still an article of commerce and in Northern Europe has been much used by smokers, manufactured also into fusees, and used to be found here in tobacconists' shops under the name of Amadou or German tinder.