[f. FUSE sb.2] trans. To furnish with a fuse.

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1802.  Wellington, Jrnl., 30 Nov., in Gurw., Desp., I. 382. Ordering … 2500 four and half inch shells, 600 to be filled, fused, etc.

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1823.  P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 396. Slate is extracted … by making perforations between its beds, into which gunpowder is placed and fused.

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1869.  Daily News, 3 July. The projectiles can be fuzed and adjusted.

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  Hence Fused ppl. a., Fusing vbl. sb.

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1869.  Daily News, 3 July. The Horse Artillery … obtained 265 impressions with the Shrapnell; 323 with the segment, double fuzed.

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1884.  Mil. Engin., I. II. 104. Each man will throw four fuzed grenades across the ditch.

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1895.  Daily News, 23 July, 6/1. They failed in one important point—the correct fuzing of the shells.

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