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Pitched Fas-cine′.

A fagot of dry twigs, covered over with incendiary composition, and used to set fire to buildings or to light up works. It is made in the same way as common fascines, except leaving a cylindrical space in the axis, is bound with strong wire, and is first coated with a composition of twenty pitch and one tallow, and, when hardened, a second coat of equal parts of pitch and resin is given the fascine, which is afterward primed at each end with rock-fire.

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