fusil

noun

1. A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.
2. (historical)A light flintlock musket or firelock.

   “[H]e out of meer wantonness attempted to trip up the heels of the soldier that stood next him, but failed in the execution, and received a blow of his breast with the butt end of a fusil, that made him stagger several paces backward.”

adj

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of fusile.

   “what might else be wrought / Fusil or grav'n in metal”

   “A fusil sea.”

   “Part of one of thoſe round Pillars that are commonly ſuppos'd to be fuſil marble: but not truly; this being of the common Suſſex Marble, full of Sea-Shells.”