fusee drive

1. 1.

   a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring

   Synonymsfusee

   Broaderdrive

   Part ofclock

Questions about fusee drive

What does fusee drive mean?

fusee drive means "a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring".

What is another word for fusee drive?

Close synonyms include fusee. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fusee drive a common word?

fusee drive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.