Fuze is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FUZE in dictionary:

VERB (USED WITH OBJECT) [FUZED, FUZ·ING.]:
• to attach a fuse or fuze to (a bomb, mine, etc.).
VERB:
• to equip with a detonating device, also FUSE
NOUN:
• a mechanical or electronic device to detonate an explosive charge, especially as contained in an artillery shell, a missile, projectile, or the like.
• fuse.
• A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.
• any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fuse
• same as fuse

Words related to FUZE

fuse7 fuzed18 fuzes17 fuzing19

Words that contain FUZE

fuzed18 fuzee17 fuzes17 defuze19 fuzees18 defuzed21 defuzes20 fuzeless20

How to use FUZE in a sentence

• As the shell lies just fair with muzzle, 3 removes cap from Fuze, which is to be passed along to the Gun Captain, and pushes the Shell into the Bore.
• Where the firing is not hurried it is advisable to raise the priming of the fuze, to insure its ignition.
• In loading with a shell, the most exact attention is required to all the precautions relating to the position of the fuze and the mode of setting home the shell.
• This fuze is composed of a composition driven in a paper case, and then inserted in a metal stock which screws into a bouching fitted to the shell.
• All shells, unless otherwise ordered, are fitted and issued from the shell-houses with the 5-seconds fuze, which is to be regarded as the general working fuze.
• For greater or less distances this fuze may be drawn, and any of the others substituted.
• The length of fuze is the limit of the distance within which this fire is effective.
• This fuze is opened at the required number of seconds, by cutting close to the right of the mark on the index-plate.
• The paper-case fuze is marked with the number of seconds it burns per inch, and it may be cut, where no danger from ignition can take place, with a sharp knife.
• Cutting-tool for opening the Bormann fuze, one in each box of shell and shrapnel.
• Similar terms are used in marking the sight and the fuze.
• When provided with the Bormann fuze, the shrapnel, or shell, as issued, is complete.
• In this respect the Bormann fuze has an advantage over the ordinary fuze.
• The shell must be filled, and the powder well shaken down, leaving only room for the insertion of the fuze.
• A wooden plug the size of the lower part of the fuze will always determine this.
• The very common, but slovenly, practice of filling the shell, and then pouring out a quantity sufficient to allow the fuze to be inserted, is expressly prohibited.
• Shell have also been returned with the powder in the vicinity of the fuze compressed into a solid mass, owing to the fact that sufficient room had not been left for its insertion.
• There is no doubt such errors will often account for the supposed defects of the fuze.
• Loaded shell are to be painted red and placed in boxes or bags marked with a red cross, which boxes are to have the lengths of fuze painted on them in black.
• All the spherical shell, however, put on board ship, filled and fitted for immediate use, are to be provided with none other than the 5-second fuze.
• For rifled cannon the shell shall be fitted with one-half percussion, one-half time fuze.
• Not only each kind and calibre, but each length of fuze, is to be stowed in separate tiers.

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