Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A military machine used during the Middle Ages for hurling stones and other missiles, often employing a wooden arm with a container at one end.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A military engine formerly used for throwing stones, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
military engine formerly used for throwing stones and burning objects.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The besiegers on the ridge took the opportunity to run their heaviest mangonel forward clear of the trees, and let loose all the heaviest stones and cases of iron rubble at the defences, raising their aim to pound incessantly at the timber brattice, more vulnerable by far than the solid masonry of the wall.
A River So Long 2010
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A great length of the brattice is in splinters, we nearly lost a mangonel over the edge when the parapet went, but we managed to haul it in over the embrasure.
A River So Long 2010
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Protectionism is such a political dead duck here that it would provide a very useful piece of ammunition for the Eurosceptic mangonel.
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Protectionism is such a political dead duck here that it would provide a very useful piece of ammunition for the Eurosceptic mangonel.
Archive 2008-06-29 2008
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I hope Santa will bring me a bushmaster carbon-series A3 .243 AR-15 with a 20 '' barrel, birdcage suppressor and backup mangonel iron sights.
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I joined the drivers and the guards near the mangonel that we would be riding down.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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September 25, 2009 at 5:49 pm hmmm… time to run some tests with the mangonel.
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I joined the drivers and the guards near the mangonel that we would be riding down.
abandoned prose... 2009
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Bethink you that your illness mars the mainspring of their enterprise; a mangonel will work without screw and lever better than the Christian host without King
The Talisman 2008
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Also interesting is the mangonel which uses tensiont on a rope wound at the base of the throwing arm to launch the projectile.
A Couple of Funny Shows Peter 2004
chained_bear commented on the word mangonel
"Mustapha swore that the Christians had only two guns, old and honeycombed, and some mangonels, but that even if they had a dozen he should still carry out his attack..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 317
February 14, 2008