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8If the fuze had to be withdrawn, there was a fuze extractor for the job.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