fusee
Example Sentences
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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
Thus, the fusee equalized the force of the spring on the wheels of the timekeeper.
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 enginemen of the special had not understood their signal, and had thrown out a fusee to warn them of his presence immediately in front of them.
From Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy by Munroe, Kirk
Then a soldier, leaning down, applied fire to the fusee.
From An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
