What is "mangonels"

Usage examples of "mangonels".

Of the half dozen siege towers that were built up north, three had been destroyed by the mangonels on the north wall.

There were plenty of conventional weapons, if by that you meant giant bows, catapults and mangonels that hurled balls of Ephebian fire, which clung while it burned.

Ominous siege engines, mangonels, catapults, a ram and the framework for a belfrois were off to the rear of the battlefield.

He made his own, out of whatever he could find, or take, or steal, parts of cars and rescued bits of machinery, which he turned into hooks and shivs, crossbows and arbalests, small mangonels and trebuchets for breaking walls, cudgels, glaives and knob-kerries.

Prince Jelarkan had emptied half his treasury for arrows, bows, ballistae, mangonels and other weapons of slaughter.

On the smaller towers, ballistae, looking like giant crossbows, shot spear-like missiles, while atop the keep, huge mangonels flung buckets of heavy stones.

The Germans would have occupied this as easily-as the rest because the garrison was small, but Hermann and Segimerus were elsewhere and none of the rest understood the Roman art of siege-warfare with catapults, mangonels, the tortoise, and sapping.

The cavalry were on the wings and the siege-engines, mangonels and catapults, planted on sand-dunes.

The trebuchets, mangonels, and pendulas positioned far beyond the bears began to fling their freight.