fusil
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Lozenge, a four-cornered figure, differing from the fusil, being shorter and broader.
From Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
At any hour of the day or night they are ready for battle: they tend their cattle on horseback, lance in hand, fusil in sling, and sabre in belt.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis
The fusil is like the lozenge, but narrower.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
A fusil is a bearing in heraldry made in the form of a spindle, with its yarn or thread wound about it.
From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
The taste was all that he had anticipated, and melted iron could hardly have been more painful than that first torture of cold, fusil acid.
From The River Prophet by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)
