bascule

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bascule

/ˈbæskjuːl/

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From French bascule, from earlier French bacule, from Old French bacul, from Old French battre + cul, from Latin battuō (“beat”) + cul (“bottom”).

noun bascules

A counterbalanced structure having one end that rises as the other lowers. In the late eighties and early nineties several new types of movable spans were advocated, including the pull-back draw, the jackknife span, the bob-tail swing, the horizontal-folding draw, the shearpole draw, the gyratory lift, the transbordeur, the double-cantilever swing, several types of bascule
The portion of a breech-loading firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the chamber. A device for coupling and releasing the trigger mechanism in a bascule of a gun

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@misc{bascule_2026,
  title = {bascule},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bascule},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}