Meanings of mangonel in English

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.

Five mangonels lay abandoned behind the walls, one already burning.

Accordingly they made three fine mangonels, each of which cast stones of 300 lbs.

And you other fellow, did I not charge you to look to the mangonels?

At the bow was the battery, consisting of mangonels (see vol.

There catapults and mangonels glowed in the light of torches held by their busy attendants.

Take the same orders, Guy, to the men working the ballistas and mangonels on the wall.

The Kaan bade them with all his heart have such mangonels made as speedily as possible.

The curtains were overlapped with penthouses somewhat shattered by the mangonels, trebuchets, and other slinging engines of the besiegers.

They drew back into the castle, which was very strong; and Johannizza besieged them, and erected his petraries and mangonels.

The besieged were not idle, but laboured at the construction of several mangonels capable of casting huge blocks of stone.

The defenders knew exactly where he was coming -they had ten mangonels waiting to bombard it with stones and fire.