Fusee

From French fusée, ultimately from Latin fūsus ("spindle").

Full definition of fusee

Noun

1. A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks.
2. A large friction match.
• 1914, "Saki", ‘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.
3. A fuse for an explosive.
4. (US) A colored flare used as a warning on the railroad
5. A fusil, or flintlock musket.

Uncertain.

Noun

1. The track of a buck.