Meanings of ballista in anglès

Closer, Temper saw that the weapon was an ancient cranequin-loading siege arbalest.

Seal dropped the arbalest on a table and knelt beside Coop.

Now get down there and use that arbalest to blow them to Hood.'

But no arbalest was pointed thence, and the fight flagged.

On this bird, I deemed, he meant to try his skill with the arbalest.

At that moment Pencroft stopped the onager, and in a hoarse voice,-

Image: Persian onager foal born Sept. 7 at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.

We then loaded the onager with the acorns and moved homewards.

We then loaded the onager with the acorns, and moved homeward.

The wild ass and onager roamed in small herds between the Balikh and the Tigris.

The trebuchet was another war machine used extensively during the Middle Ages.

My son had to build a trebuchet for a school science project.

The trebuchet was used during medieval times to break down fortifications.

He released the last chord like a boulder off a trebuchet.

Last game he had brought her out too soon and lost her to a trebuchet.

Look at yon arbalist; sure Brutus himself used such an one!

Now and again a twig would snap and fly like a bolt from an arbalist.

In the meantime here is Wat with his arbalist and a bolt in his girdle.

Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts.

He heard thee tell Gosse, Falworth, that thou wert going thither for thy arbalist this morn to shoot at the rooks withal.

The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle.

Say what one will, they are a mammillary people politically, and the strongest party in the Reichstag is merely an energetic political mangonel.

The Danes had provided themselves with large numbers of mangonels and catapults.

The Attack of Saianfu (with a Cannon, a Mangonel, and a Crossbow).

And the barons for their part made ready their petraries and mangonels on land.