Noun

1. A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
2. An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.

Etymology

• The word first appears in the phrases chanson du/de riochet, fable du ricochet. This is apparently related to other story-titles such as the fable du rouge kokelet; other dialectal terms such as and Norman has led to theories that the word originally indicated a "young cock". The sense-development is unclear.