Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Zeugma"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
zeugma
n : 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"
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