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bascules bas·cule

Spelling: [bas-kyool]

IPA: /ˈbæs kyul/

Bascules is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 293 anagrams from letters in bascules (abcelssu).

Definitions for bascules

noun

1. a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.
2. a device operating like a balance or seesaw, especially an arrangement of a movable bridge (bascule bridge) by which the rising floor or section is counterbalanced by a weight.

Origin of bascules

1670-80; French: name for a number of seesawlike mechanical devices, Middle French bacule, noun derivative of baculer to strike on the buttocks (probably orig., to land on one's buttocks), eq

Examples for bascules

bascule, bas′kūl, n. an apparatus of the lever kind, in which one end is raised while the other is depressed.

The cost has been set down at 65,000, or about one-thirtieth that of a suspension bridge, and one-third that of a bascule bridge.

The assistants seized the condemned man, and pushed him on to the bascule.

We shall see the poor devil get out of the carriage, and being fastened on to the bascule, and pulled into the lunette.

The cost has been set down at 65,000, or about one-thirtieth that of a suspension bridge, and one-third that of a bascule bridge.

The assistants seized the condemned man, and pushed him on to the bascule.

We shall see the poor devil get out of the carriage, and being fastened on to the bascule, and pulled into the lunette.

bascule, bas′kūl, n. an apparatus of the lever kind, in which one end is raised while the other is depressed.