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fusus
Latin · ancient
"a spindle"
a plain word for a spindle
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fus
Old French · medieval
"a spindle"
kept the sense of a spindle
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fusele
French · 1800s
"spindle-shaped"
an adjective describing something tapered like a spindle
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fuselage
English · 1909
"the main body of an aircraft"
coined for an airplane's tapered central body
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