Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bascule

1 sense of bascule

Sense 1
bascule -- (a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw))
       => structure, construction -- (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons")