Obs. [ad. late L. fulcīmentum, f. fulcīre: see FULCRUM and -MENT.] A prop or support; usually spec. a fulcrum.
1641. Wilkins, Math. Magick, I. xii. 80–1. If we conceive the same disproportion betwixt their several distances in the former faculties from the fulciment or center of gravity, they would both equiponderate.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 258. Imbecil boughs, which without fulciments would lay along the ground.
1695. Alingham, Geom. Epit., 54. The fulciment or point of bearing comes nearer the middle of the Oar.
1710. Brit. Apollo, III. No. 56. 2/1. In this Position of the Body the Fulciment … is the Legs.
1759. trans. Duhamel’s Husb., I. vii. (1762), 17. And a weight, or fulciment, as he calls it.
fig. 1796. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XIX. 518. A fulciment is wanting to the lever of revolution.
