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Trebuchet, treb′ū-shet, n. a military engine like the ballista.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 4 OF 4: S-Z AND SUPPLEMENTS)VARIOUSTo these engines the besieged opposed the first trebuchet, and another mounted in the barbican.
ANNALS OF A FORTRESSE. VIOLLET-LE-DUCSuch was the principle of the "trebuchet," the enormous engines which carried devastation and destruction to medieval castles.
BRITISH CASTLESCHARLES H. ASHDOWNConversely, we might describe a staff-sling as a hand-trebuchet.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 5 (OF 7) -- NOTES TO THE CANTERBURY TALESGEOFFREY CHAUCERThe medival trebuchet was a sling wielded by a gigantic arm of wood.
SCENES AND CHARACTERS OF THE MIDDLE AGESEDWARD LEWES CUTTSThe trebuchet was another war machine used extensively during the Middle Ages.
ARTILLERY THROUGH THE AGESALBERT MANUCYAnother variety of the trebuchet was the Biblia or Bible; but its distinctive character has not been ascertained.
ANCIENT ARMOUR AND WEAPONS IN EUROPEJOHN HEWITTMatthew Paris mentions the plying by day and by night of the terrible trebuchet.
ANCIENT ARMOUR AND WEAPONS IN EUROPEJOHN HEWITTThe trebuchet was a much later invented machine than the catapult, and, being built on a much larger scale, was more powerful.
THE BOY CRAFTSMANA. NEELY HALLBy this means it throws with more exactness than the biffa, and to a greater distance than the trebuchet.
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