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onager
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Koulan \Kou"lan\, n. [Native name.] (Zo["o]l.) A wild horse ( Equus onager or Asinus onager ) inhabiting the plains of Central Asia; -- called also gour , khur , and onager . [Written also kulan .] Note: It is sometimes confounded with the dziggetai, to ...
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n. medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles [syn: catapult , arbalest , arbalist , ballista , bricole , mangonel , trebuchet , trebucket ] Asiatic wild ass [syn: Equus hemionus ] [also: onagri ...
Usage examples of onager.
About this time the settlers cleared three acres of the plateau, and the rest was preserved in a wild state, for the benefit of the onagers.
The next day, at dawn, Cyrus Harding and Ayrton, mounting the cart drawn by two onagers, took the road to the corral and set off at a round trot.
The onagers and scorpions would be bad enough, backed up by Bouzes and his dragoons.
Hanse called, unshipping the carefully balanced and pleasantly sloshy goatskin bags from the onager even while he imitated him.
About this time the female onager gave birth to a young one which belonged to the same sex as its mother, and which throve capitally.
The onagers being unharnessed, were thence led to their stable, and Pencroft before going to sleep gave vent to his feelings in a deep sigh of satisfaction that awoke all the echoes of Granite House.
It was on the 3rd of January that Herbert, having ascended at daybreak to the plateau of Prospect Heights to harness one of the onagers, perceived an enormous hat-shaped cloud rolling from the summit of the volcano.
Every other day one of the settlers, driving the cart or mounted on an onager, went to look after the flock of musmons and goats and bring back the supply of milk required by Neb.
In each, a ton and a half of dead weight squatted, carefully stowed before the mast: the onagers of Erkenbert, all the forges of York Minster had been able to turn out in the weeks Ivar had given them.
The first sighting shot from an onager bounced short, kicked up and flicked a ten- foot post stump-first out of the ground.
We know from Sumerian and later depictions that onagers were regularly hunted, as well as captured and hybridized with donkeys and horses.
If onagri or springals lay unassembled in the hold they were not yet being brought to the deck.
She peeked into Krazy Katapults, searched Dragons for a Dollar, and scoped out Onagers R Us.