Bricole

Quick meaning: Bricole is a noun meaning (military) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, used to drag manoeuvre guns where horses cannot be used.

Meaning

(military) A kind of traces with hooks and rings, used to drag manoeuvre guns where horses cannot be used.

More Meanings

1. (military, historical) An ancient kind of military catapult.
2. (real 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
3. (billiards) A shot in which the cue ball is initially driven against the cushion before striking another ball.
4. (archaic, figurative) an indirect action or stroke.

Example Sentences

The Bricole, pierced for 60, mounting 44 guns, twenty four and eighteen pounders, ſunk, her captain, officers, and company priſoners.

Let Ill Conſequences be never ſo Remote, ’tis good however, with the Frogs here in the Fable, to have the Reaſon of Things at Hand. The Deſign of many Actions looks one way, and the Event works another ; as a Young Gameſter’s Couzen’d with a Bricole at Tennis.

And besides here are none of the old-time machines as elsewhere along our front; not a catapult, or bricole, or bible—as some, with wicked facetiousness, have named a certain invention for casting huge stones; nor have we yet heard the report of a cannon, or arquebus, or bombard, although we know the enemy has them in numbers.

Word Forms

• bricoles

Synonyms for bricole

Depending on context, synonyms include catapult, onager.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include catapult, onager, brick, bretesche, bretesse, brizure.

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