fusee

Meaning

Noun

• A light musket or firelock.
• A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks.
• A large friction match.
• A fuse for an explosive.
• A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad.
• A fusil, or flintlock musket.
• The track of a buck.
• One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion.

Related

Similar words

• fusil

Origin

• From French fusil. fusil.
• From French fusée, ultimately from Latin fūsus.
• Uncertain.
• fuse + -ee.