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Bricole   Listen
noun
Bricole  n.  (Mil.)
1.
A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.
2.
An ancient kind of military catapult.
3.
In court tennis, the rebound of a ball from a wall of the court; also, the side stroke or play by which the ball is driven against the wall; hence, fig., indirect action or stroke.
4.
(Billiards) A shot in which the cue ball is driven first against the cushion.





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"Bricole" Quotes from Famous Books



... right resting upon the swampy wood that bordered the river, thus completely closing in the city on the land side. The frigate, La Truite, and two galleys, lay within cannon shot of the town, and with the aid of the armed store ship, La Bricole, and the frigate, La Chimere, effectually cut ...
— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward


Words linked to "Bricole" :   catapult, mangonel, engine, onager, trebuchet, trebucket, ballista


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