Crossword clues for catapult
catapult
- Spring suddenly
- Medieval launcher
- Grenade hurler
- Ancient stone thrower
- Thrust suddenly forward (and upwards)
- Thrust (into the limelight)
- Stone-launching weapon
- Stone-hurling weapon
- Projectile-hurling siege engine
- Plane-launching device
- Cannon ancestor
- Boulder-hurling weapon
- Arctic Monkeys song to hurl?
- Ancient stone-hurling device
- Advance dramatically, as to stardom
- Siege weapon
- A plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms
- Used to propel small stones
- Medieval artillery used during sieges
- A heavy war engine for hurling large stones
- A device that launches aircraft from a warship
- Early missile launcher
- Ancient missile-launcher
- Device for hurling stones
- Weapon, a touch in fashion
- Weapon religious group deployed round a water source
- Stone-throwing weapon
- Stone thrower
- Aircraft carrier launcher
- Animal carrying bug: extremely unusual weapon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catapult \Cat"a*pult\, n. [L. catapulta, Gr. ?, prob. from kata` down + ? to shake, hurl.]
(Mil. Antiq.) An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.
A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1848, "to throw with a catapult," from catapult (n.). Intransitive sense by 1928. Related: Catapulted; catapulting.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects, such as a mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck. 2 (context UK English) slingshot 3 An instance of firing a missile from a catapult. 4 (context figuratively English) An instance of firing something, as if from a catapult. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To fire a missile from a catapult. 2 (context transitive English) To fire or launch something, as if from a catapult. 3 (context transitive English) To increase the status of something rapidly.
WordNet
n. a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones [syn: slingshot, sling]
a device that launches aircraft from a warship [syn: launcher]
medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles [syn: arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet, trebucket]
v. shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult; "the enemy catapulted rocks towards the fort"
hurl as if with a sling [syn: sling]
Wikipedia
A catapult is a ballistic device used to launch a projectile a great distance without the aid of explosive devices—particularly various types of ancient and medieval siege engines. Although the catapult has been used since ancient times, it has proven to be one of the most effective mechanisms during warfare. In modern times the term can apply to devices ranging from a simple hand-held implement (also called a “ slingshot”) to a mechanism for launching aircraft from a ship.
Catapult were a Dutch glam rock band active between 1973 and 1979.
The band formed in the Summer of 1973 when during a holiday in the Spanish resort of Lloret de Mar, Geertjan Hessing, Erwin van Prehn, Aart Mol and Cees Bergman decided to form a band. The four were veterans of the Dutch rock scene but had achieved little success up to that time. Later that year keyboard player Michael Eschauzier joined them. The band's name was suggested by Golden Earring vocalist Barry Hay.
They released their first single, "Hit The Big Time", produced by ex Golden Earring drummer Jaap Eggermont early in 1974 and it reached #16 on the Dutch singles chart.
Keyboardist Eschauzier was replaced in April 1974 by Elmer Veerfoff. The band had several hit singles between 1974 and 1975, the most successful being " Let Your Hair Hang Down" which reached #5 on the Dutch singles chart. As glam rock became less popular Catapult's fortunes took a downturn and they split up in 1979.
The band continued to work together though, forming a production company called "Cat Music" and recording as Rubberen Robbie with some success in the Netherlands and Belgium.
A catapult is a device used to throw or hurl a projectile a great distance without the aid of explosive devices.
Catapult(s) or Catapulte may also refer to:
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.