An engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles.
Sinônimos
Examples for "catapult"
Examples for "catapult"
1Sometimes good ideas can immediately catapult a company into the big leagues.
2The word smote on the captive like the missile of a catapult.
3The deal, if successfully concluded, should catapult Galen into the international league.
4The catapult master ordered the second firer to take up the tension.
5That seat was mounted on parallel catapult tubes measuring 42 inches long.
1A ballista bolt had pierced the reaver's back, and stuck there still.
2The dwarves were cranking the ballista so tight it shrieked in protest.
3He could hear the ballista men on the wall cranking their engine back.
4Richeut stepped in front of Kedle's ballista to block her aim.
5The javelin hurtled through the flames faster than any ballista dart.
1Closer, Temper saw that the weapon was an ancient cranequin-loading siege arbalest.
2Seal dropped the arbalest on a table and knelt beside Coop.
3Now get down there and use that arbalest to blow them to Hood.'
4But no arbalest was pointed thence, and the fight flagged.
5On this bird, I deemed, he meant to try his skill with the arbalest.
1At that moment Pencroft stopped the onager, and in a hoarse voice,-
2Image: Persian onager foal born Sept. 7 at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
3We then loaded the onager with the acorns and moved homewards.
4We then loaded the onager with the acorns, and moved homeward.
5The wild ass and onager roamed in small herds between the Balikh and the Tigris.
1The trebuchet was another war machine used extensively during the Middle Ages.
2My son had to build a trebuchet for a school science project.
3The trebuchet was used during medieval times to break down fortifications.
4He released the last chord like a boulder off a trebuchet.
5Last game he had brought her out too soon and lost her to a trebuchet.
1Look at yon arbalist; sure Brutus himself used such an one!
2Now and again a twig would snap and fly like a bolt from an arbalist.
3In the meantime here is Wat with his arbalist and a bolt in his girdle.
4Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts.
5He heard thee tell Gosse, Falworth, that thou wert going thither for thy arbalist this morn to shoot at the rooks withal.
1The Norman hath a mangonel or a trabuch upon the forecastle.
2Say what one will, they are a mammillary people politically, and the strongest party in the Reichstag is merely an energetic political mangonel.
3The Danes had provided themselves with large numbers of mangonels and catapults.
4The Attack of Saianfu (with a Cannon, a Mangonel, and a Crossbow).
5And the barons for their part made ready their petraries and mangonels on land.