An engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles.
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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.
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.
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