Definition of Bascules

1. Noun. (plural of bascule) ¹

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Definition of Bascules

1. bascule [n] - See also: bascule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bascules

basaltine
basaltoid
basalts
basaltware
basaluminite
basanite
basanites
basans
basashi
basbleu
basbleus
bascinet
bascinets
bascule
bascule bridge
bascules (current term)
base
base-burner
base-forming
base-metal
base-pair breathing
base-stacking
base analogue
base ball
base character
base characters
base communications
base composition

Literary usage of Bascules

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1916)
"Although these early bascules were counterweighted to some extent, ... When closed the bascules formed an arch. For operating them a rack wheel and hand ..."

2. The Principles of Structural Design by George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1898)
"bascules.—Swing Drawbridges.—Floating Bridges. IN this chapter it is intended to describe briefly the pri; design of cantilever bridges, illustrated by an ..."

3. Economics of Bridgework: A Sequel to Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1921)
"Percentage weight-curves for vertical lifts and bascules. ... Comparative costs of swing-span bridges with vertical lifts and bascules. ..."

4. Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers by Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) (1895)
"engines by which the bascules are raised, as well as the larg recess, ... The hydraulic power foi working the bascules and the lifts in the towers, ..."

5. Civil engineering as applied in construction by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1910)
"The bascules are raised and lowered by pinions moved by hydraulic power, working in segmental racks fastened to the tail-ends; and the interruption to the ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"I have been able to carry experiments further at the Tower Bridge by observing the pressure on the surface of the bascules of the brids* as evidenced by the ..."

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