Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Zeugma

Zeugma , noun

[Latin, from Greek {not transcribed}, from {not transcribed} to yoke, join. See Yoke.]

(Grammar) 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.