[f. FUSE sb.2] trans. To furnish with a fuse.
1802. Wellington, Jrnl., 30 Nov., in Gurw., Desp., I. 382. Ordering 2500 four and half inch shells, 600 to be filled, fused, etc.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 396. Slate is extracted by making perforations between its beds, into which gunpowder is placed and fused.
1869. Daily News, 3 July. The projectiles can be fuzed and adjusted.
Hence Fused ppl. a., Fusing vbl. sb.
1869. Daily News, 3 July. The Horse Artillery obtained 265 impressions with the Shrapnell; 323 with the segment, double fuzed.
1884. Mil. Engin., I. II. 104. Each man will throw four fuzed grenades across the ditch.
1895. Daily News, 23 July, 6/1. They failed in one important pointthe correct fuzing of the shells.