32 Verbs to Use for the Word fuse

"As soon as I light the fuse I will come down and we'll pull out fifty yards.

I caught the fellow who had laid the fuse, tied the whole thing round his neck, clapped a pistol to his ear, and marched him before me into the town.

" "I mean how to prepare a fuse and detonator and stick it in the cartridge.

They splashed the valley with shrapnel, and during the few moments' lull when the yeomanry were lost to view behind the mound they set their shell fuses at zero to make them burst at the mouth of the guns and act as case shot.

You cut the fuse square-ended.

Stick the square end into the cap until it touches the fulminate, and crimp down the copper shell all round with a dull knife to hold the fuse.

He had spoken about getting the powder for them, and mentioned how Koswell had fixed a fuse and lit it, and he told of getting the liquor bottles and flasks and other things.

The Princess was immeasurably consoled to find that the body-servant had destroyed the fuses and that they were in no immediate danger of being blown to pieces.

"Now, Howie," said Bertie the Badger, fingering the fuse, "what about it?" "About what, sirr?" inquired Howie, who was not quite au fait with current catch-phrases.

We've got no fuse.

He kept the ordinary at James Town, and was the one that collected the powder and kindled the fuse.

The fire that sleeps in marble never flashes and informs the whole mass so fully; if a pearllazy growth and accretion of amorphous lifeshould fuse and form again in sparkling crystals, the miracle would be less.

'Now, yours, Dave,' said Ken, and without delay Dave lobbed his grenade, the fuse of which Ken had already lighted, into the pit.

I then descended, walked back to the wharf, brought up my train, and began to lower the fuses in bag-fulls by ropes through a shoot, letting go each rope as the fuses reached the cart.

Women are making the fuses, fashioning the big shells, and at the same heavy machines used by the men.

Mamie saw him glance at his watch and measure the fuse.

Well, the most of that same day I spent in a high chamber at Woolwich, dusting out, and sometimes oiling, time-fuses: a work in which I acquired such facility in some hours, that each finally occupied me no more than ninety to a hundred seconds, so that by evening I had, with the previous day's work, close on 600.

He could not reach the fuse because of the thong about his neck!

The instant each man saw his own bundle well ignited, he reported "Lit!" and thrust the fuse ends well into the soft mud.

Above the cap he tied the fuse to the bundle with several lappings of a saddle-string.

"Do you know enough to time a fuse?"

" He lay silent, watching the burning fuses of the shells as they soared up into the night, whirling like fiery planets on their axes, higher, higher, mounting through majestic altitudes to the pallid stars, then, curving, falling faster, faster, till their swift downward glare split the darkness into broad sheets of light.

They measure the parts step by step, and weigh the completed fuse, carrying off the palm for reliability.

They were followed by other files of troops, who sprayed kerosene into the houses, others applied lighted fuses and the town was systematically destroyed.

However, on winding one fuse, I found that the mechanism would not go, choked with scoriae; and I had to resign myself to the task of opening and dusting every one: a wretched labour in which I spent that day, like a workman.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  fuse