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bascule

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bascule
1. a bridge with a movable section hinged about a horizontal axis and counterbalanced by a weight
2. a movable roadway forming part of such a bridge

bascule [′ba‚skül]
(engineering)
A structure that rotates about an axis, as a seesaw, with a counterbalance (for the weight of the structure) at one end.

bascule
A structure that moves about a horizontal axis, as a seesaw, with a counterbalance at one end.


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Byline: NEIL HODGSON A SECTION of Liverpool's dock road could be shut until November 2010 after the iron bascule bridge at Stanley Dock was condemned.
Byline: ANI Kolkata, Mar 19 (ANI): The famed swing bascule bridge at Kidderpore Port in Kolkata was extensively damaged after an empty cargo ship towed by a tug crashed against the guard wall of the bridge on Wednesday.
Chefs at the Bascule Bar and Bistro in St Peters Basin, Newcastle, cooked up a fortune in a Red Nose Day Ready, Steady, Cook challenge.
 
 
 
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