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fusee
noun as in friction match
Example Sentences
At the very moment that he did so, the dragoons raised their fusees to their shoulders, and fired at once into the midst of the compact mass of people.
I have only fusees," he said grandly, "but perhaps they will do.
When Colonel Allen passed the gate, a sentinel snapped his fusee at him, and then retreated under a covered way.
Armed with a brace of pistols, a fusee, and a blunderbuss, he fought his assailants away from his windows and the door, through which they had followed the retreating sentinel.
For night signals not less than two torpedoes, two red fusees, and red and white lanterns.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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