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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one;
- Example: "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma"


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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

zeugma n 1: 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"