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Meanings of fuze in English
Usage of fuze in English
1
The fuze on striking ignites the exploder and in turn the lyddite.
2
Hitherto no certain or efficient time-fuze has been adopted for rifled howitzers.
3
No reliable percussion or concussion-fuze has as yet been arranged for spherical shells.
4
Some fifty years, however, elapsed before a satisfactory fuze was made.
5
The grenade was held in the hand and the fuze lighted by a port-fire.
6
It is a fuze that might, for all they know, lead to a powder-keg.
7
Cutting-tool for opening the Bormann fuze, one in each box of shell and shrapnel.
8
If the fuze had to be withdrawn, there was a fuze extractor for the job.
9
There is no doubt such errors will often account for the supposed defects of the fuze.
10
This tool gripped the fuze head tightly, and turning a screw slowly pulled out the fuze.
11
For greater or less distances this fuze may be drawn, and any of the others substituted.
12
Not until the late 1600's did the method of letting the powder blast ignite the fuze become general.
13
An iron tube fuze was screwed into a small hole in the back or side of the weapon.
14
The mortar did not use a wad, because a wad prevented the fuze of the shell from igniting.
15
There was the little coil of pale hair which had been as the fuze to this great explosion.
16
Here they set a screw, hung the explosive instrument upon it, lit the fuze, and "retired."
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