The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bickford fuse
Bickford fuse \Bick"ford fuse\ or Bickford fuze \Bick"ford fuze\, or Bickford match \Bickford match\ A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.
Usage examples of "bickford fuse".
Santley said they weren't working in Forty-Nine any more but this is a piece of Bickford fuse, used in blasting.
Mauvin, as he followed her out, handed me one of Pyrullo's fliers, from which I learned that it was high time to dispense with the bungling of irresponsible amateurs who couldn't tell dynamite from melinite, or fulminate mercury from a simple Bickford fuse.