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Vinony

trapeze

noun

  1. device used in a circus or gymnastics
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /tɹəˈpiːz/

name

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

  1. A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

noun

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

  1. A trapezium.
  2. A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
  3. The trapezium bone.

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

  4. 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

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

  1. To swing on or as on a trapeze.