fusee
suomi-englanti sanakirjafusee englannista suomeksi
tuulessa sammumaton tulitikku
sytytin
kellon kierukka
merkkivalo
fusee englanniksi
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1808–10, (w), ''Memoirs of a Georgian Rake'', Folio Society 1995, p. 75:
- Breakfast being over, my father took me into his study, where, after fervently recommending me to the care of a protecting providence, he gave me a beautiful fusee, which cost him forty guineas, a pair of pistols of exquisite workmanship, and a purse containing fifty guineas in cash and a twenty-five pounds banknote.
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A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks, antique watches, and possibly all non-electronic marine chronometers.
1773, (w), ''The Journals'', Second Voyage, 8 August:
- To day when we attended the winding up of the watches the fusee of Mr Arnolds would not turn round and after several unsuccessfull tryals we were obliged to let it go down (..).
1914, (w), ‘The Dreamer’, ''Beasts and Superbeasts'', Penguin 2000 (''Complete Short Stories''), page 322:
- A comfortable hammock on a warm afternoon would appeal to his indolent tastes, and then, when he was getting drowsy, a lighted fusee thrown into the nest would bring the wasps out in an indignant mass, and they would soon find a ‘home away from home’ on Waldo's fat body.
One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion.
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