Associations to the word «Bascule»
Adverb
Wiktionary
BASCULE, noun. A counterbalanced structure having one end that rises as the other lowers
BASCULE BRIDGE, noun. A movable bridge consisting of one or two opening leafs equipped with balancing counterweights that ease and speed up their operation.
Dictionary definition
BASCULE, noun. A structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw).
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.