| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| bascule |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bas·cule |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b s ky l |
| NOUN: | A device or structure, such as a drawbridge, counterbalanced so that when one end is lowered the other is raised. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, seesaw : bas, low (from Medieval Latin bassus) + cul, bottom (from Latin c lus, rump; see (s)keu- in Appendix I).
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