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trebucket

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.

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trebucket

n. (alternative spelling of trebuchet English)

WordNet
trebucket

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]

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.