WordNet
time-fuse
n. a fuse made to burn for a given time (especially to explode a bomb)
Usage examples of "time-fuse".
Very soon thereafter, they were provided with a new and specially Krupp-designed cannon, the first ever capable of being cranked almost to the vertical, and firing a Shrapnel shell that could be time-fused, in theory anyway, to explode at a predetermined altitude.