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bascule::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | construction, structure |
Examples of bascule
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The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower.
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A horse with good jumping form snaps its knees up and jumps with a good bascule.
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With the bascule, people can channel their Zaiphon and use it for several purposes.
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It was once a bascule bridge, now permanently put upright and used as observation tower.
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A Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge was constructed across the St. Jones River in 1934.
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There are a variety of weapons used to manipulate Zaiphon, the most common being the bascule.
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Jones'engineer, Sir John Wolfe Barry, devised the idea of a bascule bridge with two towers built on piers.
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It is a bascule span, which is a type of drawbridge.
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For commuters it's the same drill as in early March, when one leaf of the 91-year-old bascule bridge was rebuilt.
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- A structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)
- Bascule is the natural round arc a horse's body takes as it goes over a jump. The horse should rise up through its back, stretching its neck forward and down, when it reaches the peak of his jump. Ideally, the withers are the highest point over the fence. ...
- Term used to describe the arc a horse makes as it jumps a fence.
- The arc the horse forms with its head neck, and back while clearing an obstacle.
- A form of moving bridge in which a hinged counterweight at one end of a span falls, causing the deck to rise.
- Hinged part of a lifting (or bascule) bridge.
- The arc of horse's body while it goes over a jump,
- A term used for the ideal outline and arc of a horse as it jumps over an obstacle.
- 1. the round arc a horse's body creates as it jumps over a fence. The back comes up and the neck stretches forward, down and over the obstacle. 2. when one end of a device is counterbalanced by the other. ...
