An engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles.
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.
6 She couldn't bring herself to hunt horses again, and even the onager made her uncomfortable.
7 With the cub hanging on-hissharp little teeth had broken the skin - the onager went down.
8 Closely related to the North African ass is the Asiatic ass, also known as the onager .
9 The thin ranks of the endangered Persian onager were joined Sept. 7 by a newborn foal.
10 Can that be Swift, our young onager ? '
11 Fritz was content with the onager .
12 The wild ass, Gorkhar of Persia (Equus onager ) , is frequent on the sandy tracts in the south-west.
13 Marines assembled the ship's armoury of weapons, checked the crossbows, and oiled the large stone-throwing onager at the bows.
14 The cart came out, the gate was reclosed, and the onager , led by Pencroft, advanced at a slow pace.
15 Now, too, the onager , the goats, and the sheep in the corral furnished daily the milk necessary to the colony.
16 The onager of Mesopotamia is a very beautiful animal, with its grey glossy coat, and its lively and rapid action.
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