Definitions for fuzees

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fuzees fu·zee

Spelling: [fyoo-zee]

IPA: /fyuˈzi/

Fuzees is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in fuzees (eefsuz).

Definitions for fuzees

noun

1. fusee.
2. a wooden friction match having a large head, formerly used when a larger than normal flame was needed.
3. a red flare light, used on a railroad as a warning signal to approaching trains.
4. Horology. a spirally grooved, conical pulley and chain arrangement for counteracting the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring.
5. fuse1 (def 1).

Origin of fuzees

1580-90; Middle French fusée spindleful, derivative of Old French fus spindle. See fuse¹

Examples for fuzees

I was obliged to quit my fuzee, and with great difficulty escaped being carried down the fall.

The usual process to-day is to substitute a modern eight-day "fuzee" movement for the old thirty-hour "verge."