RICOCHET
\ɹˈɪkəʃˌe͡ɪ], \ɹˈɪkəʃˌeɪ], \ɹ_ˈɪ_k_ə_ʃ_ˌeɪ]\
Definitions of RICOCHET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
By Princeton University
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spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n.
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To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.
By Oddity Software
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To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n.
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To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.
By Noah Webster.
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The rebounding or skipping of a shot or shell, or of any missile, along the ground or over the surface of the water.
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To rebound by touching the earth or the surface of water and glancing off, as a cannon ball; skip; skim.
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Ricocheted.
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Ricocheting.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Rebound along the ground, as of a ball fired at a low elevation: the skipping of a flat stone on the surface of water.
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To fire at with guns at a low elevation, so as to make the balls skip on the ground:-pr.p. ricochetting; pa.t. and pa.p. ricochetted.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] Rebound or skipping of a body project obliquely on a flat surface;— the rebound of a ball striking the ground in front of the target on to the target. Ricochet firing, method of firing guns with small charges of powder, and at a low elevation, mo. that the balls strike just over the parapet or in front of the enemy's lines, and bound or roll along the rampart or lines.
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