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Fuzee

noun
1.
A colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains.  Synonym: fusee.
2.
A friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind.  Synonym: fusee.
3.
Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant.  Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuze, primer, priming.






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"Fuzee" Quotes from Famous Books



... granted in pursuance of this act there shall be and shall be continually kept upon the said land one christian man between sixteen and sixty years of age perfect of limb, able and fitt for service who shall alsoe be continually provided with a well fixed musquett or fuzee, a good pistoll, sharp simeter, tomahawk and five pounds of good clean pistoll powder and twenty pounds of sizable leaden bulletts or swan or goose shott to be kept within the fort directed by this act besides the powder and shott for his necessary or ...
— The Frontier in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner

... severe: "All our family have ever been temperate not [practising] even the Debauchery of smoking tobacco, a nasty Dutch, Damn'd custom, a forerunner of idleness and drunkenness; therefore Jack, my lad, let us hear no more of your handling your Pipe, but handle well your fuzee, your sword, your pen ...
— A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs - The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 • George M. Wrong



Words linked to "Fuzee" :   safety fuse, fuse, fuze, lucifer, match, time-fuse, friction match, light, priming, ignitor, flare, igniter, lighter, detonating fuse



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