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Fusee meaning
A light musket or firelock.
Example sentences (4)
Fusee An Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad brakeman uses a fusee to demonstrate a hand signal indicating "stop".
Another type of flare is the fusee, which burns for 10–60 minutes with a bright red light.
A railroad fusee was timed to burn for ten minutes and quantities were dropped behind a train to ensure a safe spacing.
This resulted in the invention of the stackfreed and the fusee in the 15th century, and many other innovations, down to the invention of the modern going barrel in 1760.