Siege weapon

Usage examples of catapult.

A second later the wrecked boat slewed violently to the side and overturned, catapulting everyone into the seething afterwash of the surf.

The slug slammed a third of the top of her skull away, snapped her neck, catapulted her back into the dressing table, smashing the mirror, soiling the wall, leaving her in a limp, grotesque, motionless backbend across the dressing table bench.

Then, on his third backswing, he extended his legs on either side and jerked himself forward over the bar, feeling like a missile shot from a catapult.

A short, bullnose pistol was in his hand and though Clifford heard no report inside that tight tube, he did see a whiff of thin blue smoke and noticed the revolver was not aimed at him nor the girl, but at the chronometer which closed the contact, and that was all he saw for he was catapulted upward toward the sky.

Harry noticed some players for the Caerphilly Catapults, the Harpies, and other teams.

World Quidditch Federation to determine whether Mathers will still lead the English team in future European Cup and World Cup play, as well as to determine whether he will retain his position with the Caerphilly Catapults.

The cowcatcher lifted up the rearmost boxcar, catapulting the vehicle high enough to scrape along the top of the boiler and shear the lamp, smokestack, steam dome, and bell clean off the locomotive.

Four minutes after the video downlink was detected, she heard the Hoover go to full military power, the roller-coaster rattle of the steam catapult, and the final surprisingly soft thud as the catapult piston reached the end of its run and tossed the S-3 into the air.

The plague was first found in Asia, and a Kipchak army actually catapulted plague-infested corpses into a Genoise trading post.

For a couple of heartbeats there was no movement until the catapult fired, breaking the holdback fitting and blasting Wilson and Ghostrider 404 into the air.

Once the Phantom had come to a stop, several men ran beneath it and hooked up the heavy steel cable, called the bridle, which would throw the Phantom into the air, and the holdback, which prevented the catapult from launching the jet prematurely.

He kept his F-14 moving into the area known as the box, where the jet stopped in the catapult holdback with a familiar clunk.

Mongols catapulted plague infected corpses over the walls of Kaffa, in the Crimea, not far from here.

Shalp, a leatherback from Bea, was killed by a ten-foot catapult spear.

The big leatherback had covered with his shield, though not even a shield could stop some of these catapult projectiles.