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BRICOLE (a French word of unknown origin)

BRICOLE (a See also:
FRENCH
FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)
French word of unknown origin) , a military See also:

engine for casting heavy stones; also a See also:

TERM

term in See also:

TENNIS (sometimes called royal tennis, and, in America, court tennis)

tennis for a See also:

side-stroke rebounding off the See also:

wall of the See also:

court, corrupted into " See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-wall " from a supposed reference to the wall, and in See also:

BILLIARDS

billiards for a stroke off the See also:

CUSHION (from O. Fr. coisson, coussin; according to the New English Dict., from Lat. coxa, a hip; others say from Lat. culcita, a quilt)

cushion to make a See also:

CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

cannon or See also:

HAZARD (0. Fr. hazard, from Span. czar, unlucky throw at dice, misfortune, from Arab. al, and zar, dice)

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