A device or structure, such as a drawbridge, counterbalanced so that when one end is lowered the other is raised.
[French, seesaw : bas, low (from Medieval Latin bassus) + cul, bottom (from Latin cūlus, rump).]
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A device or structure, such as a drawbridge, counterbalanced so that when one end is lowered the other is raised.
A device or structure, such as a drawbridge, counterbalanced so that when one end is lowered the other is raised.
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A structure that moves about a horizontal axis, as a seesaw, with a counterbalance at one end.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a structure in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (as in a bascule bridge)
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Bascule may refer to:
- A Bascule bridge.
- bascule, or roundness over a jump, of a horse.
- A character from the Iain M Banks novel Feersum Endjinn
- Originally, a form of torture. The victim is bound to a seesaw-like device with the buttocks outward, and repeatedly lifted and dropped.
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