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Found 2 hits - Term: zeugma, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
zeugma \zeug"ma\, n. l., from gr. ?, fr. ? to yoke, join. see
   yoke. gram.
   a figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a
   nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to
   another more remote; as, "hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;"
   where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred
   also to arma.
   1913 webster
see also:
yoke 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
zeugma
     n : use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate
         to only one; "`mr. pickwick took his hat and his leave'
         is an example of zeugma"


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