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Trapeze

name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
Noun
  1. 1
    A trapezium. archaic
  2. 2
    a swing used by circus acrobats wordnet
  3. 3
    A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
  4. 4
    The trapezium bone.

    "[…] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate."

  5. 5
    A certain yo-yo trick.

    "I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string."

Verb
  1. 1
    To swing on or as on a trapeze.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.

Etymology 2

From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.

Etymology 3

From trapèze - French for trapezium, named so by Edgar Aubert de la Rüe due to the mountain's shape.

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