bricole

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A kind of traces with hooks and rings, used to drag manoeuvre guns where horses cannot be used.

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

2. isim An ancient kind of military catapult.
3. isim 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

   “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.”

4. isim an indirect action or stroke.
5. isim A shot in which the cue ball is initially driven against the cushion before striking another ball.