Noun: bascule
| Singular | bascule |
| Plural | bascules |
Sample Sentences
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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, and the vertical lift. [1932, Journal of the Association of Chinese & American Engineers, page 10:]
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The study sample contains nine rolling-lift bascules of the type invented by Chicago engineer William Scherzer in 1893 , and refined by the engineering staff of the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company, also of Chicago. [1986, Jeffrey A. Hess, Historic Highway Bridges in Wisconsin, page 87:]
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Look at those towering structures. It’s the first combination of bascule and suspension bridge ever attempted. Most innovative. [In reference to w:Tower Bridge.] [2009, w:Sherlock Holmes (2009 film), spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.):]
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A device for coupling and releasing the trigger mechanism in a bascule of a gun [1997, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office:]
Nouns inflected like bascule
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French bascule, from earlier French bacule, from Old French bacul, from Old French battre + cul, from Latin battuō (“beat”) + cul (“bottom”). See: French Nouns '
bascule', French Nouns '
bacule', Latin Nouns '
battuō'.