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has gloss	(noun) a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring fusee drive, fusee
has gloss	eng: Used in antique spring-powered mechanical watches and clocks, a fusee is a cone-shaped pulley with a spiral groove around it, wound with a cord or chain which is attached to the mainspring barrel. Fusees were used from the 1400s to the early 1900s to improve timekeeping by equalizing the uneven pull of the mainspring as it ran down.
lexicalization	eng: fusee drive
lexicalization	eng: fusee
subclass of	(noun) a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine; "a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds" drive

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part of	(noun) a timepiece that shows the time of day clock
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similar	e/Fusee (horology)

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