Mil. Obs. [a. OF. berçuel, bersuel, in same sense.] A disposition of fighting-men in a triangular phalanx with the apex towards the enemy. (Called also in OF. coing, i.e., wedge.)
1489. Caxton, Faytes of A., I. xxiv. 74. In a manere of a tryangle that men called at that bersuell.
