fusee

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I have only fusees," he said grandly, "but perhaps they will do.

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When Colonel Allen passed the gate, a sentinel snapped his fusee at him, and then retreated under a covered way.

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For night signals not less than two torpedoes, two red fusees, and red and white lanterns.

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Spindle, spin′dl, n. the pin from which the thread is twisted: a pin on which anything turns: the fusee of a watch: anything very slender.—v.i. to grow long and slender.—adjs.

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All the men carried fusees, pistols, and hangers.

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