Noun(1) a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring(2) a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains(3) a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind(4) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
Noun(1) a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring(2) a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains(3) a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind(4) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
(1) Had the agent, a senior man of 30 years service, had a lit hand lamp handy, or had he lit a fusee to wave a ‘washout’ signal instead of yelling at the passing engines it would likely have turned out differently.(2) The holder itself came from another essential railway tool, it was the discarded top of a fusee !(3) We next observe a flexible chain (artificially wrought for the sake of flexure) communicating the action of the spring from the box to the fusee .(4) Any known means can be used for positioning the ignited fusee on a supporting surface.(5) On the 10th of December, when he pledged the coat and waistcoat, I gave him a silver watch for two fuzees , I had them cleaned, and they were sold previous to this being found out.(6) The fuzees were all hand made with hand cut gears again increasing the cost over watches made with interchangeable parts.(7) Rule 99 provided that fusees be dropped from the caboose if your train could not maintain track speed.(8) Other problems have occurred such as fusees sticking in ignitor tubes and fusees that fail to ignite.(9) Flares, fusees , or signals produced by flame may not be used as warning devices for disabled vehicles of the type mentioned in this subsection.(10) The plunder included a lot of silver ornaments, fuzees and other articles left by the Indians as pledges for their debts.(11) They, the tired and famished ones, bring with them their stock-in-trade, their cigar fuzees , their boot blackers and shiners, and their humble single brushes with which to ‘brush you down, sir,’ for a penny.(12) The fusees had little or no effect in igniting the manzanita.(13) The use of radios has pretty much made the flagging use of fusees redundant.(14) Orion has been manufacturing automotive and railway flares ( fusees ) since the 1920s.(15) The signal fuzee is ignited by a striker attached to the fuzee.(16) Two fuzees and a gallon of fuel oil turn it into a thundering conflagration towering 40 feet over our heads.
