Definitions for fusil

fusil fu·sil

Spelling: [fyoo-zuh l, -sil]
IPA: /ˈfyu zəl, -sɪl/

Fusil is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in fusil (filsu).

Definitions for fusil

noun

  1. a light flintlock musket.

adjective

  1. formed by melting or casting; fused; founded.
  2. Archaic. capable of being melted; fusible.
  3. Archaic. melted; molten.

Origin of fusil

1670-80; French: musket, Old French fuisil, foisil steel for striking fire Vulgar Latin *focīlis, derivative of Latin focus fire. See focus

Examples for fusil

Hang up my sword and fusil over your chimney-place, and tell your children, twenty years hence, how they were won.

The other raised his fusil at the same moment to his shoulder.

You talk one minute about using your fusil to shoot me, and I am not afraid.

Many are also provided with the Northwestern fusil, and some have rifles.

Our artillery lost its value, and we met them with fusil and caliver.

When I had reached and cocked it, I presented it at an Indian who was unsheathing his fusil.

Alexis, meanwhile, had dropped his rifle and taken up the fusil of Pouchskin.

He took up his double-barrelled Spanish fusil, let it off, and killed the two monkeys.

Many a sullen planter eyed his fusil longingly, in the hope that Lawrence might emerge from the forests to head a new mutiny.

This fusil is described as a lengthened and sharper lozenge.

Word Value for fusil
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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