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Meanings of mangonel in English
Synonyms
Examples for "catapult"
Examples for "catapult"
1
Sometimes good ideas can immediately catapult a company into the big leagues.
2
The word smote on the captive like the missile of a catapult.
3
The deal, if successfully concluded, should catapult Galen into the international league.
4
The catapult master ordered the second firer to take up the tension.
5
That seat was mounted on parallel catapult tubes measuring 42 inches long.
1
A ballista bolt had pierced the reaver's back, and stuck there still.
2
The dwarves were cranking the ballista so tight it shrieked in protest.
3
He could hear the ballista men on the wall cranking their engine back.
4
Richeut stepped in front of Kedle's ballista to block her aim.
5
The javelin hurtled through the flames faster than any ballista dart.
1
Closer, Temper saw that the weapon was an ancient cranequin-loading siege arbalest.
2
Seal dropped the arbalest on a table and knelt beside Coop.
3
Now get down there and use that arbalest to blow them to Hood.'
4
But no arbalest was pointed thence, and the fight flagged.
5
On this bird, I deemed, he meant to try his skill with the arbalest.
1
At that moment Pencroft stopped the onager, and in a hoarse voice,-
2
Image: Persian onager foal born Sept. 7 at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
3
We then loaded the onager with the acorns and moved homewards.
4
We then loaded the onager with the acorns, and moved homeward.
5
The wild ass and onager roamed in small herds between the Balikh and the Tigris.
1
The trebuchet was another war machine used extensively during the Middle Ages.
2
My son had to build a trebuchet for a school science project.
3
The trebuchet was used during medieval times to break down fortifications.
4
He released the last chord like a boulder off a trebuchet.
5
Last game he had brought her out too soon and lost her to a trebuchet.
1
Look at yon arbalist; sure Brutus himself used such an one!
2
Now and again a twig would snap and fly like a bolt from an arbalist.
3
In the meantime here is Wat with his arbalist and a bolt in his girdle.
4
Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts.
5
He heard thee tell Gosse, Falworth, that thou wert going thither for thy arbalist this morn to shoot at the rooks withal.
Usage of mangonel in English
1
The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle.
2
Say what one will, they are a mammillary people politically, and the strongest party in the Reichstag is merely an energetic political mangonel.
3
The Danes had provided themselves with large numbers of mangonels and catapults.
4
The Attack of Saianfu (with a Cannon, a Mangonel, and a Crossbow).
5
And the barons for their part made ready their petraries and mangonels on land.
6
Five mangonels lay abandoned behind the walls, one already burning.
7
Accordingly they made three fine mangonels, each of which cast stones of 300 lbs.
8
And you other fellow, did I not charge you to look to the mangonels?
9
At the bow was the battery, consisting of mangonels (see vol.
10
There catapults and mangonels glowed in the light of torches held by their busy attendants.
11
Take the same orders, Guy, to the men working the ballistas and mangonels on the wall.
12
The Kaan bade them with all his heart have such mangonels made as speedily as possible.
13
The curtains were overlapped with penthouses somewhat shattered by the mangonels, trebuchets, and other slinging engines of the besiegers.
14
They drew back into the castle, which was very strong; and Johannizza besieged them, and erected his petraries and mangonels.
15
The besieged were not idle, but laboured at the construction of several mangonels capable of casting huge blocks of stone.
16
The defenders knew exactly where he was coming -they had ten mangonels waiting to bombard it with stones and fire.