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Fusen vs Fusee - What's the difference?

fusen | fusee |

As nouns the difference between fusen and fusee

is that fusen is a sumo match that is cancelled due to the absence of one of the rikishi while fusee is a conical, grooved pulley in early clocks.

fusen

English

Noun

  • (sumo) a sumo match that is cancelled due to the absence of one of the rikishi

    • Derived terms

    * fusenhai * fusensho ----

    fusee

    English

    (wikipedia fusee)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks.
  • A large friction match.
  • * 1914 , (w), ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts'', Penguin 2000 (''Complete Short Stories ), p. 322:
    • A comfortable hammock on a warm afternoon would appeal to his indolent tastes, and then, when he was getting drowsy, a lighted fusee thrown into the nest would bring the wasps out in an indignant mass, and they would soon find a ‘home away from home’ on Waldo's fat body.
  • A fuse for an explosive.
  • (US) A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad
  • A fusil, or flintlock musket.

    • Etymology 2

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The track of a buck.
    • (Ainsworth)