fusee
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Thus, the fusee equalized the force of the spring on the wheels of the timekeeper.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 31, 2011
The importance of the fusee should not be underestimated: it made possible the development of the portable clock as well as the subsequent evolution of the pocket watch.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 31, 2011
The railroad explained that the West Coast Champion's fireman had gone down the track to set a fusee, had stumbled and destroyed his only one.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
Then a soldier, leaning down, applied fire to the fusee.
From An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
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