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Medieval artillery used during sieges
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trebucket
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of trebuchet English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles [syn: catapult , arbalest , arbalist , ballista , bricole , mangonel , onager , trebuchet ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Castigatory \Cas"ti*ga*to*ry\, n. An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool , or trebucket . --Blacktone.
Usage examples of trebucket.
It was a crime that people should have been allowed to stage a major turning-point in the history of the city without using thousands of people and camels and ditches and earthworks and siege-engines and trebuckets and horses and banners.
It was a crime that people should have been allowed to stage a major turning‑point in the history of the city without using thousands of people and camels and ditches and earthworks and siege‑engines and trebuckets and horses and banners.