1.A conical pulley or wheel, especially in a watch or clock.
‘The fuzees were all hand made with hand cut gears again increasing the cost over watches made with interchangeable parts.’
‘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.’
2.A large-headed match capable of staying alight in strong wind.
‘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.’
‘Two fuzees and a gallon of fuel oil turn it into a thundering conflagration towering 40 feet over our heads.’
3.A railway signal flare.
‘Other problems have occurred such as fusees sticking in ignitor tubes and fusees that fail to ignite.’
‘The holder itself came from another essential railway tool, it was the discarded top of a fusee!’
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‘The fuzees were all hand made with hand cut gears again increasing the cost over watches made with interchangeable parts.’
