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 other day, on the pier at Boulogne, I lit a fusee for the purpose of having a smoke.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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
