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fu⋅zee

  [fyoo-zee]
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fusee.

fu⋅see

  [fyoo-zee]
–noun
1. a wooden friction match having a large head, formerly used when a larger than normal flame was needed.
2. a red flare light, used on a railroad as a warning signal to approaching trains.
3. Horology. a spirally grooved, conical pulley and chain arrangement for counteracting the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring.
4. fuse 1 (def. 1).
Also, fuzee.

Origin:
1580–90; < MF fusée spindleful, deriv. of OF fus spindle. See fuse 1
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fu·see also fu·zee   (fyōō-zē')   
n.  

  1. A friction match with a large head capable of burning in a wind.

  2. A colored flare used as a warning signal for trucks and railroad trains.

  3. A cone-shaped pulley with a spiral groove, used in a cord- or chain-winding clock to maintain even travel in the timekeeping mechanism as the force of the mainspring lessens in unwinding.

  4. A combustible fuse for detonating explosives.


[From French fusée, spindle, rocket, flare, fuse, from Old French, spindleful of thread, from fus, spindle, from Latin fūsus.]
fu·zee   (fyōō-zē')   
n.  Variant of fusee.
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