Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant.
Long-burning flare used on roadways and in rail transport.
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Examples for "railroad flare"
Examples for "railroad flare"
1Two railroad flares sputtered redly thirty feet apart at the end of the long corridor of darkness.
1Lighting your cigarette with your powers is about as stealthy as waving around a road flare.
2The pouch contained a medical kit, a roll of duct tape, a road flare, and a flashlight.
3Arson was clearly the cause of the fires - each had been started with a road flare.
4Gard pulled what looked like a road flare out of her duffel bag and tossed the bag aside.
5In the pockets of his field jacket were two ordinary road flares.
1The highway flare sputtered in her hand, hissing like an angry snake.
2He saw Cassie silhouetted against the flames, the highway flare still sputtering in her hand.
3The highway flare cast wildly jittering light into the cave behind them, and both the girls' faces looked ghostly in its harsh shadows.
4When Rex opened his eyes, he saw Melissa kneeling nearby, lighting the highway flares from the remains of the fire.
A spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring.
1This is Six; she's making some fusee chain for Mr Fanshaw.
2He said nothing, but consulted his watch by the aid of a fusee.
3You glow like a fusee whenever you see a young lady.
4The stranger popped open the plastic case and took out a long red fusee.
5The chief had a fusee, which he carried slung, in addition to his rifle.
6Then the fusee sputtered out, and he tossed it into the snow behind them.
7I had some fusee chain made this morning, I can mend it while you wait.'
8For a long time did this shower of sparks descend, spraying continuously like a fusee.
9We found a burning fusee, sure enough, but took good care to throw it overboard.
10If unfortunately they come within reach of his fusee, he almost invariably brings them down.
11He lingered a moment; and lighted a fusee, just for the sake of hearing the old familiar words.
12He quickly manufactured a fusee, so that the mass would not blaze up until the yard was fixed.
13He did not follow them himself until he had picked up and tossed a fusee into the fire.
14In front of the sultan, the Zeg Zeg troops had one French fusee; the Kano forces had forty-one muskets.
15Many inventions were put forward by chemists before the perfecting of the common match, the wax vesta, and the fusee.
16You must leave in this ball an opening to serve as a fusee, and cover it with rosin and sulphur.