Device that is designed to break or circumvent city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare.
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Examples for "siege engine "
1 Another siege engine was approaching the wall, pulled forward by rows of living slaves.
2 A single mote of dust: fate's siege engine .
3 What's that siege engine there?
4 So stop by their site, give a little money, get a cool table-top siege engine , and help some schools as well.
5 I rose at dawn and spent the morning carrying wood as we continued the slow business of preparing the siege engine .
1 The disassembled components of a harbour siege weapon came dragged by.
2 Directing the gunners to fire at will, found to blow up a siege weapon after another, and catapults.
3 Armor, siege weapons and more than a million ground troops.
4 The siege weapons lurched closer, hauled forward by massive ropes and trains of pack animals.
5 I see nothing in the way of siege weapons . '
1 Before 1500 the siege gun had been the predominant piece.
2 A siege gun can't be fired from a carriage, or even from ordinary ground.
3 He had even submitted plans for a siege gun .
4 It's the only way to stop them from bringing up their siege gun , isn't it?
5 There followed a detonation like a siege gun .
6 The shots grew in volume and presently we heard the dull boom of a siege gun , then another and another.
7 Before ordering the assault, the way was prepared for it by a terrible fire from every siege gun of the Turks.
8 The cannons - a siege gun and a smaller pedrero - represent the museum's first significant acquisitions from the Armada fleet.
9 Before I could make my way off the bus in Creel, I could hear a voice outside booming away like a siege gun .
10 The forts outside the town were said to be armed with the 15-centimeter siege gun made of steel, also with a Krupp action.
11 From the north and east came the thunder of the siege guns .
12 Oct. 7-Japaneseseize Island of Yap; Japanese bring siege guns before Tsing-tau.
13 These huge howitzers were reinforced by heavy siege guns furnished by Austria.
14 Cupola of a Maubeuge Fort Shattered by the German 42-Centimeter Siege Gun .
15 The Germans presently brought into an overpowering bombardment their ll-inch siege guns .
16 He is as heavy as one of his own siege guns .
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