![]() noun (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.noun 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.To bound by touching the earth or the surface of water and glancing off, as a cannon-ball.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun The motion of an object which rebounds from a flat surface over which it is passing, as in the case of a stone thrown along the surface of water.noun The act or an instance of ricocheting.intransitive verb To rebound at least once from a surface.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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