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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RIC'OCHET, n. In gunnery, the firing of guns, mortars or howitzers with small charges, and elevated a few degrees, so as to carry the balls or shells just over the parapet, and cause them to roll along the opposite rampart. This is called ricochet-firing, and the batteries are called ricochet-batteries.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a glancing rebound [syn: ricochet, carom] v
1: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: French Date: 1769 a glancing rebound (as of a projectile off a flat surface); also an object that ricochets II. intransitive verb (ricocheted; also ricochetted; ricocheting; also ricochetting) Date: 1828 to bounce or skip with or as if with a glancing rebound

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 the action of a projectile, esp. a shell or bullet, in rebounding off a surface. 2 a hit made after this. --v.intr. (ricocheted; ricocheting or ricochetted; ricochetting) (of a projectile) rebound one or more times from a surface. Etymology: F, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ricochet Ric`o*chet", n. [F.] A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water. Ricochet firing (Mil.), the firing of guns or howitzers, usually with small charges, at an elevation of only a few degrees, so as to cause the balls or shells to bound or skip along the ground.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ricochet Ric`o*chet", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ricochetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Ricochetting.] To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n. [R.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ricochet Ric`o*chet", v. i. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(ricochets, ricocheting, ricocheted) When a bullet ricochets, it hits a surface and bounces away from it. The bullets ricocheted off the bonnet and windscreen. VERB: V prep/adv, also V • Ricochet is also a noun. He was wounded in the shoulder by a ricochet. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

backfire, backlash, backlashing, boomerang, bounce, bounce back, bound, bound back, cannon, cannon off, carom, contrecoup, dap, fly back, graze, have repercussions, kick, kick back, kickback, lash back, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, repercuss, repercussion, repulse, resile, resilience, skim, skip, snap back, spring, spring back