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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cylindrical firework that emits balls of fire and a shower of sparks.
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- noun a type of
firework , with a long, thick paper tube that contains layers of "stars" and lifting charges. When ignited, pyrotechnic stars shoot from the tube one at a time. - noun a type of
parachute deployment failure
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- noun a cylindrical firework that projects a series of colored balls of fire
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