time-fuse

• “The slackers at Homeland Security had not considered the possibility that I might construct a slow chemical time-fuse to ignite a tube of fuselage-melting mousse.”

  Stan Goff: Air Travel Under Orange Alert

• “The presence of these people about the cabin might interfere with his plans, and so he had resolved to make a slow match do duty as a time-fuse.”

  Robur the Conqueror

• “Evidently there was a second series of charges, either inefficiently wired, or with a very long time-fuse.”

  Seven Pillars of Wisdom

• “Among the time-fuse hand grenades may be mentioned the Mills No. 5,”

  Military Instructors Manual

• “In testing the Navy time-fuse by the watch, or michronometer, the safety-plug must be removed: otherwise the fuze will burn longer than the time for which it is marked.”

  Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.

• “The safety-plug should be removed when the Navy time-fuse is used in rifled cannon, as recent experiments show that it is a probable cause of premature explosions of shells.”

  Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.

• “In some instances the French employ an automatic detonator which corresponds in a certain measure to the time-fuse of a shrapnel shell fired from a gun.”

  Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War

• “The first three were exploded by a time-fuse set for from three to five seconds.”

  Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army

• “With the purpose of confusing no less than killing, they used percussion, which burst on striking the ground, as well as shrapnel, which burst by a time-fuse in the air.”

  The Last Shot

• “The sort of accident you set with a time-fuse," said Martlow grimly.”

  The Best British Short Stories of 1922

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